Repeatedly extract a line between two delimiters in a text file, Python

Question

I have a text file in the following format:

DELIMITER1
extract me
extract me
extract me
DELIMITER2

I\'d like to extract every block of

Answer 1

If the delimiters are within a line:

def get_sentences(filename):
    with open(filename) as file_contents:
        d1, d2 = '.', ',' # just example delimiters
        for line in file_contents:
            i1, i2 = line.find(d1), line.find(d2)
            if -1 < i1 < i2:
                yield line[i1+1:i2]


sentences = list(get_sentences('path/to/my/file'))

If they are on their own lines:

def get_sentences(filename):
    with open(filename) as file_contents:
        d1, d2 = '.', ',' # just example delimiters
        results = []
        for line in file_contents:
            if d1 in line:
                results = []
            elif d2 in line:
                yield results
            else:
                results.append(line)

sentences = list(get_sentences('path/to/my/file'))