Command output repr

README.rst

@@ -104,21 +104,20 @@ Alternatively, install the latest from `PyMAPDL GitHub
    pip install git+https://github.com/pyansys/pymapdl.git
 
 
-For a local "development" version, install with:
+For a local "development" version, install with (requires pip >= 22.0):
 
 .. code::
 
    git clone https://github.com/pyansys/pymapdl.git
-   cd mapdl
+   cd pymapdl
    pip install -e .
 
 
 Dependencies
 ------------
 You will need a local licenced copy of ANSYS to run MAPDL prior and
 including 2021R1.  If you have the latest version of 2021R1 you do
-not need MAPDL installed locally and can connect to a remote instance
-via gRPC.
+not need MAPDL installed locally and can connect to a remote instance.
 
 
 Getting Started

src/ansys/mapdl/core/commands.py

@@ -750,3 +750,8 @@ def to_dataframe(self):
             df["IMAG"] = df["IMAG"].astype(np.float64, copy=False)
 
         return df
+
+
+class StringWithLiteralRepr(str):
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return self.__str__()

src/ansys/mapdl/core/mapdl.py

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
     BoundaryConditionsListingOutput,
     CommandListingOutput,
     Commands,
+    StringWithLiteralRepr,
     inject_docs,
 )
 from ansys.mapdl.core.errors import MapdlInvalidRoutineError, MapdlRuntimeError
@@ -2349,7 +2350,7 @@ def run(self, command, write_to_log=True, mute=None, **kwargs) -> str:
 
         text = text.replace("\\r\\n", "\n").replace("\\n", "\n")
         if text:
-            self._response = text.strip()
+            self._response = StringWithLiteralRepr(text.strip())
             self._log.info(self._response)
         else:
             self._response = None

tests/test_commands.py

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
     CommandListingOutput,
     CommandOutput,
     Commands,
+    StringWithLiteralRepr,
 )
 
 try:
@@ -234,3 +235,11 @@ def test_docstring_injector(mapdl, method):
             assert "``str.to_list()``" in docstring
             assert "``str.to_array()``" in docstring
             assert "``str.to_dataframe()``" in docstring
+
+
+def test_string_with_literal():
+    base_ = "asdf\nasdf"
+    output = StringWithLiteralRepr(base_)
+    assert output.__repr__() == output
+    assert output.__repr__() == base_
+    assert len(output.split()) == 2