On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:47:32 -0700, Soren wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a string that contains some text and newline characters. I want
> to parse the string so that the string just before a newline character
> goes in as an element in the tuple.
>
> ex:
>
> "text1 \n text2 \n text3 \n text4" --> (text1, text2, text3, text4)
>
> Is there an easy way to do this?
the_string = "text1 \n text2 \n text3 \n text4"
tuple(the_string.split('\n'))
If you don't need a tuple, and a list will do:
the_string.split('\n')
If you want to get rid of the white space after each chunk of text:
[s.strip() for s in the_string.split('\n')]
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