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Shyam Parimal Katti <spk265@nyu.edu> writes:

> A semi-colon in the string value  indicates the termination of a sql query.
> So the expected out come is a conversion to a list of valid sql queries:
> ['drop table sample_table;', 'create table sample_test (col1 int);',
> 'select col1 from sample_test;']

I presume these strings are split from lines of input. If so, you would
be better advised to use an SQL parsing library in the first place
<URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlparse/>, to get distinct SQL
statements from a text stream.

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