Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:47:32 -0700, Soren wrote: >> "text1 \n text2 \n text3 \n text4" --> (text1, text2, text3, text4) > > 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')
or the_string.splitlines() > If you want to get rid of the white space after each chunk of text: > > [s.strip() for s in the_string.split('\n')] -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list