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

Using splitlines() to split by newline character and strip() to remove unnecessary white spaces.

>>> names='''
...       Apple
...       Ball
...       Cat'''
>>> names
'\n      Apple\n      Ball\n      Cat'
>>> names_list = [y for y in (x.strip() for x in names.splitlines()) if y]
>>> # if x.strip() is used to remove empty lines
>>> names_list
['Apple', 'Ball', 'Cat']

Answer 2

names.split('\n') should give you a list split by '\n'

Answer 3

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']

Answer 4

names.splitlines() should give you just that.