What is equivalent of GNU split in python?

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I'm migrating some of old bash scripts to python, both for utilitar and educational purposes. In Bash i'd use something like

cat dir/*csv|split -n5 -d --filter="gzip -c - >$FILE.gz" -L20000 - combined/part-

and get directory with number of archived files with correct number of records each.

I'm wondering what library or approach in Python would behave in a similar way to gnu split?

score -2 · Answer 1 · answered May 22 '17 at 11:34

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python has a default split method for string type. for example: msg = "this:is:a:message" result = msg.split(":")

result will be a list as follow: ["this", "is", "a", "message"]

answered May 22 '17 at 11:34

Gu Hang

Don't confuse between gnu cut and gnu split, they're very different tools – Robert Navado May 22 '17 at 11:40
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Or rather, the program `split` is wildly different from Python's `split` method. – chepner May 22 '17 at 12:39

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