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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:02:21 -0400
From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
To: greymaus <greymausg@mail.com>
Subject: Re: Record seperator
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On 26 Aug 2011 18:39:07 GMT
greymaus <greymausg@mail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there an equivelent for the AWK RS in Python?
> 
> 
> as in RS='\n\n'
> will seperate a file at two blank line intervals

open("file.txt").read().split("\n\n")

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