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---
title: Split into lines
tags: string
cover: succulent-4
firstSeen: 2019-08-20T16:15:15+03:00
lastUpdated: 2020-11-02T19:28:35+02:00
---
Splits a multiline string into a list of lines.
- Use `str.split()` and `'\n'` to match line breaks and create a list.
- [`str.splitlines()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.splitlines) provides similar functionality to this snippet.
```py
def split_lines(s):
return s.split('\n')
```
```py
split_lines('This\nis a\nmultiline\nstring.\n')
# ['This', 'is a', 'multiline', 'string.' , '']
```