how to read a long multiline string line by line in python

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I have a wallop of a string with many lines   How do I read the lines one by one with a for clause   Here is what I am trying to do and I get an error on the textData var referenced in the for line in textData line   for line in textData     print line     lineResult   libLAPFF parseLine line    The textData variable does exist  I print it before going down  but I think that the pre-compiler is kicking up the error   TIA  Dennis

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by splitting with newlines   for line in wallop of a string with many lines split   n       do something     if you iterate over a string  you are iterating char by char in that string  not by line    gt  gt  gt string    abc   gt  gt  gt for line in string      print line  a b c

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What about using  splitlines     for line in textData splitlines        print line      lineResult   libLAPFF parseLine line

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This answer fails in a couple of edge cases  see comments   The accepted solution above will handle these  str splitlines   is the way to go  I will leave this answer nevertheless as reference   Old  incorrect  answer   s         line1 line2 line3      lines   s split   n   print lines  for line in lines      print line

[python] how to read a long multiline string line by line in python

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