"John K Masters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I am currently working my way through Jeffrey Friedl's book Mastering > Regular Expressions. Great book apart from the fact it uses Perl for the > examples. > > One particular expression that interests me is '$/ = ".\n"' which, > rather than splitting a file into lines, splits on a period-newline > boundary. Combined with Perl's 'while (<>)' construct this seems a great > way to process the files I am interested in. > > Without wishing to start a flame war, is there a way to do this in Python? > > Regards, John > -- > War is God's way of teaching Americans geography > Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
>>> 'test\ntest2.\ntest3\ntest4.\ntest5'.split('.\n') ['test\ntest2', 'test3\ntest4', 'test5'] -Mark T. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list