split a string in python

Question

All,

I have a string in python say a="Show details1\nShow details2\nShow details3\nShow details4\nShow details5\n"

How do we split the above with the delimiter \n (a newline).

The result should be as ['Show details1', 'Show details2', ..., 'Show details5']

Answer 1

split method:

a.split('\n')[:-1]

Answer 2

try:

a.split('\n')

Answer 3

Use a.splitlines(). This will return you a list of the separate lines. To get your "should be" result, add " ".join(a.splitlines()), and to get all in lower case as shown, the whole enchilada looks like " ".join(a.splitlines()).lower().

Answer 4

If you are concerned only with the trailing newline, you can do:

a.rstrip().split('\n')

See, str.lstrip() and str.strip() for variations.

If you are more generally concerned by superfluous newlines producing empty items, you can do:

filter(None, a.split('\n'))

Answer 5

 a.split('\n')

would return an empty entry as the last member of the list.so use

a.split('\n')[:-1]