title: Python console and text output from Ping including \n\r
body: <p>I dont know what is happening, but when I am printing to the console or to a text file, the newline (\n) is not functioning but rather showing in the string. Any idea how to avoid this in both the console and the text file?</p>
  
  <p>My code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import subprocess
  
  hosts_file = open("hosts.txt","r")
  lines = hosts_file.readlines()
  
  for line in lines:
      line = line.strip()
      ping = subprocess.Popen(["ping", "-n", "3",line],stdout = subprocess.PIPE,stderr = subprocess.PIPE)
      out, error = ping.communicate()
      out = out.strip()
      error = error.strip()
      output = open("PingResults.txt",'a')
      output.write(str(out))
      output.write(str(error))
      print(out)
      print(error)
  hosts_file.close()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>b'Pinging 192.168.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:\r\nRequest timed out.\r\nRequest ti
  med out.\r\nRequest timed out.\r\n\r\nPing statistics for 192.168.0.1:\r\n    Pa
  ckets: Sent = 3, Received = 0, Lost = 3 (100% loss),'
  b''
  b'Pinging 192.168.0.2 with 32 bytes of data:\r\nRequest timed out.\r\nRequest ti
  med out.\r\nRequest timed out.\r\n\r\nPing statistics for 192.168.0.2:\r\n    Pa
  ckets: Sent = 3, Received = 0, Lost = 3 (100% loss),'
  b''
  b'Pinging 192.168.0.3 with 32 bytes of data:\r\nRequest timed out.\r\nRequest ti
  med out.\r\nRequest timed out.\r\n\r\nPing statistics for 192.168.0.3:\r\n    Pa
  ckets: Sent = 3, Received = 0, Lost = 3 (100% loss),'
  b''
  b'Pinging 192.168.0.4 with 32 bytes of data:\r\nRequest timed out.\r\nRequest ti
  med out.\r\nRequest timed out.\r\n\r\nPing statistics for 192.168.0.4:\r\n    Pa
  ckets: Sent = 3, Received = 0, Lost = 3 (100% loss),'
  b''
  b'Pinging 192.168.0.5 with 32 bytes of data:\r\nRequest timed out.\r\nRequest ti
  med out.\r\nReply from 3.112.3.214: Destination host unreachable.\r\n\r\nPing st
  atistics for 192.168.0.5:\r\n    Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 1, Lost = 2 (66%
  loss),'
  b''
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Hosts File:</p>
  
  <pre><code>192.168.0.1
  192.168.0.2
  192.168.0.3
  192.168.0.4
  192.168.0.5
  </code></pre>