Josiah Carlson wrote:
The split/strip stuff is simple on purpose; it's fast. Tossing in regular expressions handling is a great way to slow down the general case, never mind if you actually want to split on the passed literal string.
That's easy to remedy without making it overly complex.
text.split_pattern(' *\n+ *')
Cheers, Ron
- Josiah
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Ron Adam <rrr@ronadam.com> wrote:
Josiah Carlson wrote:
-1 on the feature, I use the compound expression as below, only have the internal item be a generator expression to reduce peak memory usage. Also, the != condition is unnecessary.
[t for t in (t.strip() for t in text.split('\n')) if t]
If split was a bit smarter...
text.split(pattern=(' *\n+ *'))
;-)
It can be done with the re module, but I need to look that up each time I use it since I don't use it enough to remember all it's subtleties.
Ron