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The splitlines() string method is used to split the content of the invoked string at the occurrence of each newline character i.e. \n in it. The splitlines() method returns a list of split values.

Signature of splitlines() method

# The signature of splitlines() method 
  
splitlines(keepnewline)

Parameters	Description
keepnewline	This optional parameter is used to specify a bool value where - -- The value True specifies that the newline character \n should be included as a part of a split. -- The value False specifies that the newline character should not be included in the split. -- The default value of this parameter is False.

• An example of splitlines() method


In the upcoming code, we have a string object initialized to a value "Do not give up yet \n get up \n and work hard!", and we are going to call the splitlines() method on it to perform the number of splits on the basis of the default separator used by the splitlines() method i.e. \n. Let us see the example.



# Python - Example of splitlines() method.



# Creating a string 
s1 = 'Do not give up yet \n Get up \n Work hard!'


# Calling the splitlines() method on string
# which will perform the number of splits(starting at the right)
# on the basis of default separator i.e. a newline character \n 
# and returns a list containing all the split values
a_list = s1.splitlines()


# Priting all the split values 
print('A list of splits : ', a_list)





Output is :




A list of splits :  ['Do not give up yet ', ' Get up ', ' Work hard!']






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• Specifying if we want to include newline in a split or not.


We can even specify if we want to include or not include the newline character in each split performed by the splitlines() method by passing a bool value i.e.True or False to the keepnewline parameter of splitlines() method. Let us see an example.



# Python - Example of splitlines() method.



# Creating a string 
s1 = 'No beauty \n Shines Brighter \n Than \n A bright heart!'



# Calling the splitlines() method on string
# which will perform the number of splits(starting at the left)
# on the basis of default separator i.e. a newline character \n 
# and returns a list containing all the split values
#  bool True specifies that newline character should be included as a part of split
a_list = s1.splitlines(True)


# Priting all the split values 
print('A list of splits with newline included in each split: ', a_list)



# Calling the splitlines() method on string
# which will perform the number of splits(starting at the left)
# on the basis of default separator i.e. a newline character \n 
# and returns a list containing all the split values
#  bool True specifies that newline character should not be included as a part of split
a_list = s1.splitlines(False)


# Priting all the split values 
print('A list of splits with newline not included in each split: ', a_list)




Output is :




A list of splits with newline included in each split:  ['No beauty \n', ' Shines Brighter \n', ' Than \n', ' A bright heart!']
A list of splits with newline not included in each split:  ['No beauty ', ' Shines Brighter ', ' Than ', ' A bright heart!']








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