Splitting lines in a file

[Simon Foster]

On 7 Jul 2002 22:30:55 GMT, William Park
<opengeometry at NOSPAM.yahoo.ca> wrote:

>'1\n2\n3\n'.split() works as follows:
>    1\n2\n3\n -> 1\n2\n3 -> 1 \n 2 \n 3 -> 1 2 3
>
>'1\n2\n3\n'.split('\n') works as follows:
>    1\n2\n3\n -> 1 \n 2 \n 3 \n -> 1 2 3 ''
>where the last '\n' separates '3' and '' (null).
>
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>William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
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Still seems odd!
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Simon Foster
Cheltenham
England