Python equivalent of Perl's $/

[Mark T]

"John K Masters" <johnmasters at oxtedonline.net> wrote in message 
news:mailman.9.1187619031.26576.python-list at python.org...
>I am currently working my way through Jeffrey Friedl's book Mastering
> Regular Expressions. Great book apart from the fact it uses Perl for the
> examples.
>
> One particular expression that interests me is '$/ = ".\n"' which,
> rather than splitting a file into lines, splits on a period-newline
> boundary. Combined with Perl's 'while (<>)' construct this seems a great
> way to process the files I am interested in.
>
> Without wishing to start a flame war, is there a way to do this in Python?
>
> Regards, John
> -- 
> War is God's way of teaching Americans geography
> Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)

>>> 'test\ntest2.\ntest3\ntest4.\ntest5'.split('.\n')
['test\ntest2', 'test3\ntest4', 'test5']

-Mark T.