In <ad212ad9-2cac-4a03-a25d-1d46dd527...@w41g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> ru...@yahoo.com writes:
>On Aug 14, 2:23=A0pm, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: >> Sometimes I want to split a string into lines, preserving the >> end-of-line markers. =A0In Perl this is really easy to do, by splitting >> on the beginning-of-line anchor: >> >> =A0 @lines =3D split /^/, $string; >> >> But I can't figure out how to do the same thing with Python. =A0E.g.: >Why not this? >>>> lines =3D 'spam\nham\neggs\n'.splitlines (True) >>>> lines >['spam\n', 'ham\n', 'eggs\n'] That's perfect. And .splitlines seems to be able to handle all "standard" end-of-line markers without any special direction (which, ironically, strikes me as a *little* Perlish, somehow): >>> "spam\015\012ham\015eggs\012".splitlines(True) ['spam\r\n', 'ham\r', 'eggs\n'] Amazing. I'm not sure this is the *best* way to do this in general (I would have preferred it, and IMHO it would have been more Pythonic, if .splitlines accepted an additional optional argument where one could specify the end-of-line sequence to be used for the splitting, defaulting to the OS's conventional sequence, and then it split *strictly* on that sequence). But for now this .splitlines will do nicely. Thanks! kynn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
