Splitting on '^' ?

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On Aug 14, 2:23 pm, kj <no.em... at please.post> wrote:
> Sometimes I want to split a string into lines, preserving the
> end-of-line markers.  In Perl this is really easy to do, by splitting
> on the beginning-of-line anchor:
>
>   @lines = split /^/, $string;
>
> But I can't figure out how to do the same thing with Python.  E.g.:

Why not this?

>>> lines = 'spam\nham\neggs\n'.splitlines (True)
>>> lines
['spam\n', 'ham\n', 'eggs\n']