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Re: How can I remove the first line of a multi-line string? (SOLVED)

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On 9/11/2013 8:08 AM, Fábio Santos wrote:

> Is there not a limit argument to str.split? This should be trivial.

Yes, I posted an example using it the first day.

I also showed how to use iter and next with files and avoid copying.

> first, rest = multiline_str.split('\n', 1)

This does not work right is there is no '\n'

Then someone pointed out
first, dummy, rest = partition('\n')
which does work with no '\n'

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Terry Jan Reedy

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Re: How can I remove the first line of a multi-line string? (SOLVED) Anthony Papillion <papillion@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 11:24 -0500
  Re: How can I remove the first line of a multi-line string? (SOLVED) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-02 13:07 -0400
    Re: How can I remove the first line of a multi-line string? (SOLVED) Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-09-11 13:08 +0100
      Re: How can I remove the first line of a multi-line string? (SOLVED) Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-11 09:03 -0400
    Re: How can I remove the first line of a multi-line string? (SOLVED) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-09-11 08:42 -0400

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