python - How to print list items which contain new line?

Question

These commands:

l = ["1
2"]    
print(l)

print

['1
2']

I want to print

['1
2']

Is it possible when we generate the list outside of the print() command?

Answer 1

A first attempt:

l = ["1
2"]
print(repr(l).replace('\n', '
'))

The solution above doesn't work in tricky cases, for example if the string is "1\n2" it replaces, but it shouldn't. Here is how to fix it:

import re
l = ["1
2"]
print(re.sub(r'\n|(\.)', lambda match: match.group(1) or '
', repr(l)))