How would I separate strings in a text file with a colon in python?

Question

How would I loop through a text file and store a value. If I take a line from a text file, hello@aol.com:Password1, How would I store email as hello@aol.com , and password as Password1 ?

file = open("TEST.txt", "r")

for line in file:
    print(line)

What have you tried that didn't work ? Hint: python strings have quite a few useful methods... — bruno desthuilliers, May 22 '19 at 12:56
Possible duplicate of [How can I split and parse a string in Python?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5749195/how-can-i-split-and-parse-a-string-in-python) — Faruq, May 22 '19 at 14:00

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 22 '19 at 13:03

This is a useful way to "open files":

with open('TEST.txt', 'r') as f:
    f.readlines()

to split strings, you could use the split method:

'hello@aol.com:Password1'.split(':')

(the split method takes "what to split by" as an optional parameter)

As Bruno commented, you should take a look at string methods

How would I separate strings in a text file with a colon in python?

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