splitlines() is sometimes nice for adhoc parsing (of well behaved stuff...) because it throws out whitespace-only lines from the resulting list of strings. #1

splitlines() is sometimes nice for adhoc parsing (of well behaved stuff...) because it throws out whitespace-only lines from the resulting list of strings. #1 use-case of that for me is probably just avoiding the cases where there's a trailing newline character in the output of a command I ran by subprocess.