split byte string into lines

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How can I split a byte string into a list of lines?

In python 2 I had:

rest = "somenlines"
for line in rest.split("n"):
    print line

The code above is simplified for the sake of brevity, but now after some regex processing, I have a byte array in rest and I need to iterate the lines.

Asked By: Flavius

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Answer 1

Decode the bytes into unicode (str) and then use str.split:

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>>> a = b'asdfnasdf'
>>> a.split('n')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API
>>> a = a.decode()
>>> a.split('n')
['asdf', 'asdf']
>>>

You can also split by b'n', but I guess you have to work with strings not bytes anyway. So convert all your input data to str as soon as possible and work only with unicode in your code and convert it to bytes when needed for output as late as possible.

Answered By: warvariuc

Answer 2

try this.. .

rest = b"somenlines"

rest=rest.decode("utf-8")

then you can do rest.split("n")

Answered By: namit

Answer 3

There is no reason to convert to string. Just give split bytes parameters. Split strings with strings, bytes with bytes.

>>> a = b'asdfnasdf'
>>> a.split(b'n')
[b'asdf', b'asdf']

Also, since you’re splitting on newlines, you could slightly simplify that by using splitlines() (available for both str and bytes):

>>> a = b'asdfnasdf'
>>> a.splitlines()
[b'asdf', b'asdf']

Answered By: Janus Troelsen

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