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Nono I mean split into list, strip the strings in it, then join the list with separator newline (and quote sign I suppose).

Though by all means dropping newlines alltogether is also an option

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I can't see the comment so I don't understand the problem, but a double newline shouldnt cause that issue. In my experience \n>\n> will correctly be identified as a new paragraph in the quote by reddit. Any chance I could have a screenshot of the comment?

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Artist: https://www.last.fm/music/Mischief+Brew

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This looks like it could be a code block? that would be caused by a series of spaces in the beginning of the line (at least 4)
I am almost certain it is not a nested quote, though I don't know new reddit

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hm i did some more testing and im not quite sure, I dont think its possible to have code block in quote?

Could someone with access do a getSubmission request on the comment and get the raw body data from the api?

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The summary is:

"Mischief Brew was an anarchist folk-punk band. A wicked concoction by Erik Petersen – a musical feast falling somewhere between the categories of pirate punk, Celtic folk, gypsy swing, devilish jazz, American olde-tyme and country. It’s good music to stomp, kick, pogo, jitterbug, waltz, drink, twist and shout to – whether the performance is solo acoustic or with a backing band of accordion, drums, and mandolin.\n\n Erik started making music at a young age <a href=\"https://www.last.fm/music/Mischief+Brew\">Read more on Last.fm</a>"

Github doesn't format this properly either but the key piece is that the \n\n is followed by 12 spaces.

Perhaps we run it through

re.sub("\n+", "\n>", re.sub('\s+',' ', description))

I think that'll clobber both the extra lines (replacing them with a single quote for our need) as well as stripping excess spaces from the text body.

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using native split function, then strip and join also can. It's not going to get rid of mid-text double space, but it will handle the main issue and should be faster than regex

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@TcMaX : I think that would remove newlines as well though wouldn't it?

Edit: Although considering we are getting the short description it might not be that bad. We could split, strip, join then append > to the front (for reddit markdown) and call it a day. The resulting paragraph shouldn't be so long we really care about the newlines anyway.

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So something like

summarySplit = summary.split('\n') strippedList = list(map(str.strip, summarySplit)) newSummary = '\n>'.join(strippedList)

Completely untested, but something in this ballpark. I think it'd be a fair bit faster than regex

EDIT: I really did try to newline things in this code block, it didn't work.

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seems to work. obviously first one no quote but thats easy fix

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