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How to remove ^ M from a text file and replace it with the next line

So, suppose I have a text file with the following contents:

Hello what is up. ^M
^M
What are you doing?

I want to remove ^Mand replace it with the next line. Therefore, my output will look like this:

Hello what is up. What are you doing?

How to do this in Python? Or if there is a way to do this using unix commands, then please let me know.

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''.join(somestring.split(r'\r'))

or

somestring.replace(r'\r','')

This assumes that you have carriage returns in your string, not the letter "^ M". If this is the literal string "^ M", then substituting r '\ r' with "^ M"

If you want newlines to disappear, use r '\ r \ n'

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Try:

>>> mystring = mystring.replace("\r", "").replace("\n", "")

( "mystring" )

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use replace

x='Hello what is up. ^M\
^M\
What are you doing?'

print x.replace('^M','') # the second parameter  insert what you want replace it with
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