splitting lines into lines then adding all to a long list

Question

i have some text that is split like so:

line 1

hey I'm a paragraph. hey I'm a paragraph. hey I'm a paragraph. hey I'm a paragraph.\n, hey I'm a new paragraph. hey I'm a new paragraph. hey I'm a new paragraph.\n, hey im the third paragraph. hey im the third paragraph. hey im the third paragraph.\n

line 2

hey I'm a paragraph. hey I'm a paragraph. hey I'm a paragraph. hey I'm a paragraph.\n, hey I'm a new paragraph. hey I'm a new paragraph. hey I'm a new paragraph.\n, hey im the third paragraph. hey im the third paragraph. hey im the third paragraph.\n

this goes on for a while as you can see. the paragraphs or groupings of lines are split by "\\n," how can i get all the paragraphs into one list with no smaller lists inside for ex:

list = ["hey I'm a paragraph. hey I'm a paragraph. hey I'm a paragraph. hey I'm a paragraph.", "etc etc..."]

Answer 1

Assuming your text is in a file named file.txt , and that the \\n is a string and not an escape character, then you can do this by simply:

full_list = []

file = open('file.txt', 'r')

for line in file.readlines():
    full_list += [x.rstrip('\\n') for x in line.split('\\n,')]

file.close()
print(full_list)

Answer 2

Is this what you are looking for? Splitting the string into a list on the \\n?

string = '''hey I'm a paragraph. hey I'm a paragraph. hey I'm a paragraph. hey I'm a paragraph.\n, hey I'm a new paragraph. hey I'm a new paragraph. hey I'm a new paragraph.\n, hey im the third paragraph. hey im the third paragraph. hey im the third paragraph.\n'''
string_list = string.split('\n')
print(string_list)