Splitting textfile into section with special delimiter line - python

Question

I have an input file as such:

This is a text block start
This is the end

And this is another
with more than one line
and another line.

The

Answer 1

How about pass a predicate?

def per_section(it, is_delimiter=lambda x: x.isspace()):
    ret = []
    for line in it:
        if is_delimiter(line):
            if ret:
                yield ret  # OR  ''.join(ret)
                ret = []
        else:
            ret.append(line.rstrip())  # OR  ret.append(line)
    if ret:
        yield ret

Usage:

with open('/path/to/file.txt') as f:
    sections = list(per_section(f))  # default delimiter

with open('/path/to/file.txt.txt') as f:
    sections = list(per_section(f, lambda line: line.startswith('#'))) # comment