-inf That breaks existing code in two different ways which I don't think makes it easy. it does NOT collapse adjacent characters: >>> "a&&b".split("&") ['a', '', 'b'] the separator it splits on is a string, not a character: >>> "a<b><c>d".split("><") ['a<b', 'c>d'] --- Bruce On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Ron Adam <rrr@ronadam.com> wrote:
Bruce Leban wrote:
I think string.split(list) probably won't do what people expect either. Here's what I would expect it to do:
'1 (123) 456-7890'.split([' ', '(', ')', '-']) ['1', '', '123', '', '456', '7890']
but what you probably want is:
re.split(r'[ ()-]*', '1 (123) 456-7890') ['1', '123', '456', '7890']
using allows you to do that and avoids ambiguity about what it does.
--- Bruce
Without getting into regular expressions, it's easier to just allow adjacent char matches to act as one match so the following is true.
longstring.splitchars(string.whitespace) = longstring.split()
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