Python readline() from a string?

Question

In python, is there a built-in way to do a readline() on string? I have a large chunk of data and want to strip off just the first couple lines w/o doing split() on the who

Answer 1

Do it like StringIO does it:

i = self.buf.find('\n', self.pos)

So this means:

pos = msg.find("\n")
first_line = msg[:pos]
...

Seems more elegant than using the whole StringIO...