How to split a single Text File TXT into Lines in Python

Splitting text files into lines is one of those features that you don’t really notice until you don’t have it. This task can be deceptively difficult, considering its mundane nature. Thankfully, we have a correspondingly simple way to get it into your project: an API. We begin by installing that API’s client with this pip install command.

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Now we call the function we need, which goes by split_document_txt_by_line.

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.SplitDocumentApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.
try:
# Split a single Text file (txt) into lines
api_response = api_instance.split_document_txt_by_line(input_file)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling SplitDocumentApi->split_document_txt_by_line: %s\n" % e)

Done! Any text file that you throw into this code as an input will now be split into a set of lines. Talk about easy!

It’s easy to smile when the solution is this simple.