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Split string using a newline delimiter with Python

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2204...

Accepted answer links:
[str.splitlines]: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes....

Answer 2 links:
[str.splitlines()]: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/str...
[str.split()]: https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_str...

Answer 3 links:
[@Ashwini Chaudhary suggested in the comments]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2204...

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 294


str.splitlines method should give you exactly that. 

>>> data = """a,b,c
... d,e,f
... g,h,i
... j,k,l"""
>>> data.splitlines()
['a,b,c', 'd,e,f', 'g,h,i', 'j,k,l']


ANSWER 2

Score 15


data = """a,b,c
d,e,f
g,h,i
j,k,l"""

print(data.split())       # ['a,b,c', 'd,e,f', 'g,h,i', 'j,k,l']

str.split, by default, splits by all the whitespace characters. If the actual string has any other whitespace characters, you might want to use

print(data.split("\n"))   # ['a,b,c', 'd,e,f', 'g,h,i', 'j,k,l']

Or as @Ashwini Chaudhary suggested in the comments, you can use

print(data.splitlines())


ANSWER 3

Score 7


There is a method specifically for this purpose:

data.splitlines()
['a,b,c', 'd,e,f', 'g,h,i', 'j,k,l']


ANSWER 4

Score 3


Here you go:

>>> data = """a,b,c
d,e,f
g,h,i
j,k,l"""
>>> data.split()  # split automatically splits through \n and space
['a,b,c', 'd,e,f', 'g,h,i', 'j,k,l']
>>>