io - Keep the new line symbols in the string when writing in a text file Python -

i have list of strings, , of strings contain '\n's. want write list of strings text file , later on read , store list using readlines(). have keep original text; meaning not removing new lines text.

if don't remove these new lines of course readlines() return larger number of strings original list.

how can achieve this? or there's no way , should write in other formats instead. thanks.

the following:

from __future__ import print_function strings = ["asd", "sdf\n", "dfg"] open("output.txt", "w") out_file:   string in strings:     print(repr(string), file=out_file) open("output.txt") in_file:   line in in_file:     print(line.strip()) 

prints

'asd' 'sdf\n' 'dfg' 

to print (without quotes), can use ast.literal_eval: print(ast.literal_eval(line.strip()))