How to split a python string on new line characters

Question

In python3 in Win7 I read a web page into a string.

I then want to split the string into a list at newline characters.

I can\'t enter the newline into my cod

Answer 1

a.txt

this is line 1
this is line 2

code:

Python 3.4.0 (default, Mar 20 2014, 22:43:40) 
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux
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>>> file = open('a.txt').read()
>>> file
>>> file.split('\n')
['this is line 1', 'this is line 2', '']

I'm on Linux, but I guess you just use \r\n on Windows and it would also work