David C. Ullrich wrote:

I've been saving data in a file with one line per field.
Now some of the fields may become multi-line strings...

I was about to start escaping and unescaping linefeeds
by hand, when I realized that repr() and eval() should
do. Hence the question: If s is a string, is repr(s)
guaranteed not to contain line breaks?

yes.

just keep in mind that using eval() on untrusted data isn't a very good idea.

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