Splitline Python String

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I have a list of elements whose text is like the following: aSampleElementText = "Vraj Shroff\nIndia" I want to have two lists now where the first list's element would have "Vraj Shroff" and the second list's element would have "India".

I looked at other posts about split and splitlines. However, my code below is not giving me expected results.

Output:

"V", 
"r"

Desired output:

"Vraj Shroff",
"India"

My code:

personalName = "Something" #first list
personalTitle = "Something" #second list
for i in range(len(names)-1) 
    #names is a list of elements (example above)
    #it is len - 1 becuase I don't want to do this to the first element of the list
    i += 1
    temp = names[i].text
    temp.splitlines()
    personName.append(temp[0])
    personTitle.append(temp[1])

What is names? And it looks like you are also missing a colon in your for loop. — Moon Cheesez
– Moon Cheesez, Commented May 17, 2018 at 4:55
@Rakesh I tried that. It does not work. I am new at Python. I am not really sure why that is the case. — Vraj Shroff
– Vraj Shroff, Commented May 17, 2018 at 4:57
@MoonCheesez it is a list of elements that I scraped. In the for loop, I am trying to access the title but in 2 lists. I will add the colon (it was present in the real code so that is not the issue) — Vraj Shroff
– Vraj Shroff, Commented May 17, 2018 at 4:58

Rohan Ds · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-17 04:55:21Z

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names is a string. names[I] is the character corresponding to that index in the string. Hence you are getting this kind of output.

Do something like,

x = names.splitlines()

x will be the list with the elements.

answered May 17, 2018 at 4:55

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Rohan Ds Over a year ago

aSampleElementText.splitlines()

Umesh Kaushik · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-17 06:19:33Z

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names = []
locations = []
a = ["Vraj Shroff\nIndia", "Vraj\nIndia", "Shroff\nxyz", "abd cvd\nUS"]

for i in a:
    b = i.splitlines()
    names.append(b[0])
    locations.append(b[1])

print(names)
print(locations)

output:

['Vraj Shroff', 'Vraj', 'Shroff', 'abd cvd']
['India', 'India', 'xyz', 'US']

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answered May 17, 2018 at 6:19

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