Iterate over the lines of a string

Question

I have a multi-line string defined like this:

foo = \"\"\"
this is 
a multi-line string.
\"\"\"

This string we used as test-input for a par

Answer 1

You can iterate over "a file", which produces lines, including the trailing newline character. To make a "virtual file" out of a string, you can use StringIO:

import io  # for Py2.7 that would be import cStringIO as io

for line in io.StringIO(foo):
    print(repr(line))