string.splitlines() - string

             
The method splitlines() returns a list with all the lines in string, optionally including the line breaks (if num is supplied and is true)


num -- This is any number, if present then it would be assumed that line breaks need to be included in the lines.

Syntax

str.splitlines( num=string.count('
'))

Example

#!/usr/bin/python

str = "Line1-a b c d e f\nLine2- a b c\n\nLine4- a b c d";
print str.splitlines( )
print str.splitlines( 0 )
print str.splitlines( 3 )
print str.splitlines( 4 )
print str.splitlines( 5 )

Output / Return Value

When we run above program, it produces following result −


['Line1-a b c d e f', 'Line2- a b c', '', 'Line4- a b c d']
['Line1-a b c d e f', 'Line2- a b c', '', 'Line4- a b c d']
['Line1-a b c d e f
', 'Line2- a b c
', '
', 'Line4- a b c d']
['Line1-a b c d e f
', 'Line2- a b c
', '
', 'Line4- a b c d']
['Line1-a b c d e f
', 'Line2- a b c
', '
', 'Line4- a b c d']

Limitations

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