How do I split a multi-line string into multiple lines?

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I have a multi-line string that I want to do an operation on each line, like so:

inputString = """Line 1
Line 2
Line 3"""

I want to iterate on each line:

for line in inputString:
    doStuff()
python split string
6 Answers
inputString.splitlines()

Will give you a list with each item, the splitlines() method is designed to split each line into a list element.

Unkwntech_1150

Like the others said:

inputString.split('\n')  # --> ['Line 1', 'Line 2', 'Line 3']

This is identical to the above, but the string module's functions are deprecated and should be avoided:

import string
string.split(inputString, '\n')  # --> ['Line 1', 'Line 2', 'Line 3']

Alternatively, if you want each line to include the break sequence (CR,LF,CRLF), use the splitlines method with a True argument:

inputString.splitlines(True)  # --> ['Line 1\n', 'Line 2\n', 'Line 3']
efotinis_123200

The original post requested for code which prints some rows (if they are true for some condition) plus the following row. My implementation would be this:

text = """1 sfasdf
asdfasdf
2 sfasdf
asdfgadfg
1 asfasdf
sdfasdgf
"""

text = text.splitlines()
rows_to_print = {}

for line in range(len(text)):
    if text[line][0] == '1':
        rows_to_print = rows_to_print | {line, line + 1}

rows_to_print = sorted(list(rows_to_print))

for i in rows_to_print:
    print(text[i])
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