Pierre GM wrote:
On Dec 3, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Christopher Barker wrote:
for more than one space between numbers, like:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
On the version I'm working on, both delimiter='' and delimiter=None (default) would give you the expected output.
so empty string and None both mean "any white space"? also tabs, etc?
delimiter=' ' would fail,
s only exactly that delimiter. Is that so things like '\t' will work right? but what about: 4, 5, 34,123, .... In that case, ',' is the delimiter, but whitespace is ignored. or 4\t 5\t 34\t 123. we're ignoring extra whitespace there, too, so I'm not sure why we shouldn't ignore it in the ' ' case also. delimiter=' ' would work. but in my example, there were sometimes two spaces, sometimes three -- so I think it would fail, no?
"1 2 3 4 5".split(' ') ['1', '2', '3', '4', ' 5']
actually, that would work, but four spaces wouldn't.
"1 2 3 4 5".split(' ') ['1', '2', '3', '4', '', '5']
I guess the solution is to use delimiter=None in that case, and is does make sense that you can't have ' ' mean "one or more spaces", but "\t" mean "only one tab". -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception Chris.Barker@noaa.gov