python - Find how many lines in string

Question

I am creating a python movie player/maker, and I want to find the number of lines in a multiple line string. I was wondering if there was any built in function or function I could code to do this:

x = """
line1
line2 """

getLines(x)

Answer 1

If newline is ' ' then nlines = x.count(' ').

The advantage is that you don't need to create an unnecessary list as .split(' ') does (the result may differ depending on x.endswith(' ')).

str.splitlines() accepts more characters as newlines: nlines = len(x.splitlines()).