Find how many lines in string

Question

I am creating a python movie player/maker, and I want to find the number of lines in a multiple line string. I was wondering if there was any built in function or function I could code to do this:

x = """ line1 line2 """  getLines(x) 

Answer 1

If newline is '\n' then nlines = x.count('\n').

The advantage is that you don't need to create an unnecessary list as .split('\n') does (the result may differ depending on x.endswith('\n')).

str.splitlines() accepts more characters as newlines: nlines = len(x.splitlines()).

Answer 2

You can split() it and find the length of the resulting list:

length = len(x.split('\n')) 

Or you can count() the number of newline characters:

length = x.count('\n') 

Or you can use splitlines() and find the length of the resulting list:

length = len(x.splitlines())