How to split a text that repeat all the same pattern of lines n times and create n different text files in python?

Question

I have a text that repeat the same pattern of lines. like that:

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 "User= Name1; 
  Time= HH:MM; 
  Note= example.
  User= Name2; 
  Time= HH:MM; 
  Note= example2.
  ......"   

this pattern is repeated 500 times.

how can i create 500 different text files, each for each "user"?

Answer 1

It looks like each segment is 7 lines long, so you can read the data into a list, the use zip and iter to break it into a list of lists, each list being 7 elements long. Then you can write each one of those to a file.

If you are curious how zip(iter) works check out the details here

with open('users.txt') as f:
    data = f.readlines()
       
for c, file in  enumerate(zip(*[iter(data)]*7)):
    with open(f'file_{c}.txt', 'w') as f:
        f.writelines(file)

Or if you want the files names by the users

with open('users.txt') as f:
    data = f.readlines()
       
for file in zip(*[iter(data)]*7):
    name = file[0].split('=')[-1].split(';')[0].strip()
    print(name)
    with open(f'file_{name}.txt', 'w') as f:
        f.writelines(file)