.splitlines()

.splitlines() is a built-in string method in Python that is used to split a multi-line string into a list of lines. It recognizes different newline characters such as \n, \r, or \r\n and splits the string at those points. The method returns a list of strings, each corresponding to a line in the original multi-line string.

Syntax

string.splitlines(keepends=False)

• string: This is the string on which to apply the .splitlines() method.
• keepends (optional): This is a boolean parameter. If True, the line break characters are included in the resulting lines. If False (the default), the line break characters are excluded.

Examples

In this example, .splitlines(keepends=True) is used to include the line break characters in the resulting lines.

multi_line_string = "This is line 1.\nThis is line 2.\nThis is line 3."

lines_with_breaks = multi_line_string.splitlines(keepends=True)

print(lines_with_breaks)

for line in lines_with_breaks:
  print(line)

This results in the following output:

['This is line 1.\n', 'This is line 2.\n', 'This is line 3.']
This is line 1.

This is line 2.

This is line 3.

In next example, .splitlines() is applied to a custom multi-line string with various line break characters (\n, \r\n, and \r).

custom_multi_line_string = "Line A\nLine B\r\nLine C\rLine D"

custom_lines = custom_multi_line_string.splitlines()

print(custom_lines)

for line in custom_lines:
  print(line)

This results in the following output:

['Line A', 'Line B', 'Line C', 'Line D']
Line A
Line B
Line C
Line D

Codebyte Example

The code below is runnable and uses .splitlines() to split multi_line_string:

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