Convert Multiline into list

Question

I have extracted a set of data from HTML page and copied to a variable. The variable looks like

names=\'\'\'
      Apple
      Ball
      Cat\'\'\'
         


        

Answer 1

This snippet will give you a list:

names='''Apple
Ball
Cat'''

content = names.split("\n")
print(content)

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Output:

['Apple', 'Ball', 'Cat']