I needed to split a big file delimited by double line breaks into a series of smaller files. Python to the rescue!
Posting this because I didn't find anything on google that put together all the pieces I needed.
def split_file_on_delim(to_split_name, delim, splitted_base, splitted_ext):
"""This function reads a file, splits on delim, and writes each chunk out to its own new file."""
fn = open(to_split_name, "r")
fr = fn.read()
fs = fr.split(delim)
for i, chunk in enumerate(fs):
fw = open(splitted_base + "_%i." %i + splitted_ext,'w')
fw.write (chunk)
fw.close()
#sample usage:
split_file_on_delim("c:\\tmp\\to_split.txt", "\n\n", "c:\\tmp\\splitted", "txt")
