Replacing a text with \n in it, with a real \n output

Question

I am trying to get a config from a juniper router and I have the following problem:

After setting this

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Answer 1

An alternative to what you want is splitting your string into a list of strings (per line).

mystr = 'a\nb\nc'
mystr = mystr.split(sep='\n')
print(mystr)
#this will be your print output:['a', 'b', 'c']
for s in mystr:
    print(s)
#your print output:
#a
#b
#c