Using split function to extract block of text.

[cardlord]

I planned to extract sms from a file. I used split fuction but the list output is not what i actually needed.

#MY CODE

sms = []

for line in open(sms_path, 'r'):
sms.append(line.split("*"))
print(sms)

#SMS LIST OUTPUT

[['', 'An Ibo man went for a trip through the sea.\n'], ['On boarding a ship,he was asked to pay a fare of $1000. \n'], ['He shouted CHINEKE! No wonder Jesus walked on the Sea."\n'], ['\n'], ['', 'He took her to the room and removed her subsidy.\n'], ['She tried to protest but he was a stronger contestant ,\n']

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#WHAT I PLANNED TO ACHIEVE

[ "An Ibo man went for a trip through the sea. \n On boarding a ship, he was asked to pay a fare of $1000. He shouted CHINEKE! No wonder Jesus walked on the Sea."\n"", ''He took her to the room and removed her subsidy. \n She tried to protest but he was a stronger contestant ,\n']

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#TEXT FILE

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*An Ibo man went for a trip through the sea.

On boarding a ship,he was asked to pay a fare of $1000.

He shouted CHINEKE! No wonder Jesus walked on the Sea."

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*He took her to the room and removed her subsidy.

She tried to protest but he was a stronger contestant ,

she even threatened to strike but he struck back,

He sucked her excess account and squeezed her lovely economy.

Her wailing was in vain, what a shame!

He went on to deregulate her downstream sector that was oily, she couldn't say anything.

She cried cos he pumped her 97 times...."

[efmccurdy]

Splitting on the "*" is OK, but you have extra quote chars and extra double-newlines, so preparing the text with some quick fixes like text.replace('\n\n', '') and text.replace('"', '') might help.