How to read a long multiline string line by line in python

Question

I have a wallop of a string with many lines. How do I read the lines one by one with a for clause? Here is what I am trying to do and I get an error on the textData var referenced in the for line in textData line.

for line in textData     print line     lineResult = libLAPFF.parseLine(line) 

The textData variable does exist, I print it before going down, but I think that the pre-compiler is kicking up the error.

Answer 1

What about using .splitlines()?

for line in textData.splitlines():     print(line)     lineResult = libLAPFF.parseLine(line) 

Answer 2

by splitting with newlines.

for line in wallop_of_a_string_with_many_lines.split('\n'):   #do_something.. 

if you iterate over a string, you are iterating char by char in that string, not by line.

>>>string = 'abc' >>>for line in string:     print line  a b c