get nth line of string in python

Question

How can you get the nth line of a string in Python 3? For example

getline("line1\nline2\nline3",3)

Is there any way to do this using stdlib/builtin functions? I prefer a solution in Python 3, but Python 2 is also fine.

Answer 1

Try the following:

s = "line1\nline2\nline3"
print s.splitlines()[2]