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If you are manually placing the \n characters in your text file, then you will need to use the following code to manually escape special characters (e.g \n):

s = s.decode('string_escape')

Alternatively, you could use the textwrap module to automatically wrap the text:

import textwrap
s = '\n'.join(textwrap.wrap(s,100)) #Wrap every 100 characters