Can you add a multiline string in plain text via the Confluence API to a web page?

[Louis Gallo]

I am new to programming with Confluence. I am using Python 3 and the Confluence API to create Confluence pages.

The one thing that I cannot figure out is if I can add a multiline string to a Confluence page via the API?

It seems to strip all my carriage return line feeds and sticks everything on one line.

Example: (Python)

#Declare my multiline string

myString = '''a

b

c'''

When I use this call:

# Creating page in confluence
create_page_result = confluence.update_or_create(
    parent_id=9999999,
    title= 'My Test Page',
    body=myString

It writes this string to the new Confluence page all on one line:

a b c

Is there any way around this?

Help!!!

Thanks,

Lou

[John Fetzik]

You probably need to use the inline newline escape sequence, "\n". Check out the following page for more details.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-insert-a-new-line-when-using-lines-the-jira-core-rest-api-779160736.html