How To Get Python To Make New Lines In A Print Statement With \r\n?

Right now, I'm coding a python SMTP script. status = clientSocket.recv(1024) print (status) When python prints status, I get: b'250-mx.google.com at your service, [107.216.175.252

Solution 1:

status has bytes type, so you need to decode it to string.

2 obvious ways to achieve this:

1. print(status.decode())
2. print(str(status, 'utf-8'))

The default encoding for .decode is UTF-8, so if you want to use a different one, do status.decode(encoding). And status.decode(encoding) is exact equivalent to str(status, encoding).

Why just str(status) isn't working:

From the documentation on str function:

Passing a bytes object to str() without the encoding or errors arguments falls under the first case of returning the informal string representation. For example:

>>> str(b'Zoot!')
"b'Zoot!'"

Solution 2:

>>>print(status.decode())
250-mx.google.com at your service, [107.216.175.252]
250-SIZE 35882577
250-8BITMIME
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH XOAUTH2 PLAIN-CLIENTTOKEN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250 CHUNKING

You're on Python 3 which defaults to unicode, but you have an old style byte-string from doing sockets. You just have to decode it and then the print will get rid of newline representations as usual.