python - Replace with <br />

Question

I'm parsing text from file with Python. I have to replace all newlines ( ) with
cause this text will build html-content. For example, here is some line from file:

'title
'

Now I do:

thatLine.replace('
', '<br />')
print thatLine

And I still see the text with newline after it.

Answer 1

thatLine = thatLine.replace(' ', '<br />')

str.replace() returns a copy of the string, it doesn't modify the string you pass in.