A quick function to split up/remove the <br /> tags when a WP sourcecode example gets auto-formatted.

wpcodesplitter

import os
import sys

# add the offending text to file1.txt
f = open("file1.txt", 'r')
content = f.read()
contentArray = content.split('<br />')
for item in contentArray:
    print item
# then copy/paste the console output