read file into array separated by paragraph Python

Question

I have a text file, I want to read this text file into 3 different arrays, array1 array2 and array3. the first paragraph gets put in array1, the second paragraph gets put in arr

Answer 1

import itertools as it


def paragraphs(fileobj, separator='\n'):
    """Iterate a fileobject by paragraph"""
    ## Makes no assumptions about the encoding used in the file
    lines = []
    for line in fileobj:
        if line == separator and lines:
            yield ''.join(lines)
            lines = []
        else:
            lines.append(line)
    yield ''.join(lines)

paragraph_lists = [[], [], []]
with open('/Users/robdev/Desktop/test.txt') as f:
    paras = paragraphs(f)
    for para, group in it.izip(paras, it.cycle(paragraph_lists)):
        group.append(para)

print paragraph_lists