How to split a python string on new line characters

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In python3 in Win7 I read a web page into a string   I then want to split the string into a list at newline characters   I can t enter the newline into my code as the argument in split    because I get a syntax error  EOL while scanning string literal   If I type in the characters   and n  I get a Unicode error   Is there any way to do it

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a txt  this is line 1 this is line 2   code   Python 3 4 0  default  Mar 20 2014  22 43 40    GCC 4 6 3  on linux Type  help    copyright    credits  or  license  for more information   gt  gt  gt  file   open  a txt   read    gt  gt  gt  file  gt  gt  gt  file split   n     this is line 1    this is line 2         I m on Linux  but I guess you just use  r n on Windows and it would also work

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Splitting line in Python   Have you tried using str splitlines   method     Python 2 X documentation here  Python 3 X documentation here    From the docs      str splitlines  keepends        Return a list of the lines in the string  breaking at line boundaries    Line breaks are not included in the resulting list unless keepends is   given and true    For example    gt  gt  gt   Line 1 n nLine 3 rLine 4 r n  splitlines     Line 1        Line 3    Line 4     gt  gt  gt   Line 1 n nLine 3 rLine 4 r n  splitlines True    Line 1 n     n    Line 3 r    Line 4 r n      Which delimiters are considered      This method uses the universal newlines approach to splitting lines    The main difference between Python 2 X and Python 3 X is that the former uses the universal newlines approach to splitting lines  so   r     n   and   r n  are considered line boundaries for 8-bit strings  while the latter uses a superset of it that also includes     v or  x0b  Line Tabulation  added in Python 3 2    f or  x0c  Form Feed  added in Python 3 2    x1c  File Separator   x1d  Group Separator   x1e  Record Separator   x85  Next Line  C1 Control Code    u2028  Line Separator   u2029  Paragraph Separator     splitlines VS split      Unlike str split   when a delimiter string sep is given  this method   returns an empty list for the empty string  and a terminal line break   does not result in an extra line     gt  gt  gt     splitlines        gt  gt  gt   Line 1 n  splitlines     Line 1     While str split   n   returns    gt  gt  gt     split   n          gt  gt  gt   Line 1 n  split   n     Line 1            Removing additional whitespace   If you also need to remove additional leading or trailing whitespace  like spaces  that are ignored by str splitlines    you could use str splitlines   together with str strip      gt  gt  gt   str strip   for str in  Line 1   n   nLine 3  rLine 4  r n  splitlines      Line 1        Line 3    Line 4       Removing empty strings        Lastly  if you want to filter out the empty strings from the resulting list  you could use filter      gt  gt  gt    Python 2 X   gt  gt  gt  filter bool   Line 1 n nLine 3 rLine 4 r n  splitlines      Line 1    Line 3    Line 4     gt  gt  gt    Python 3 X   gt  gt  gt  list filter bool   Line 1 n nLine 3 rLine 4 r n  splitlines       Line 1    Line 3    Line 4      Additional comment regarding the original question   As the error you posted indicates and Burhan suggested  the problem is from the print  There s a related question about that could be useful to you  UnicodeEncodeError    39 charmap  39  codec can  39 t encode - character maps to  lt undefined gt   print function

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