splitting using '\' as a delimiter

Felix Meinhold FelixMeinhold at web.de
Sun Dec 2 19:03:28 EST 2001


> I have strings like this:
>
> string = 'value\key'
>
> that I would like to split.  If I try splitting the string like this:
>
> alias = string.split('\\',string)
>
> I get:
>
> alias = ['\']
>
> How can I do this?
>
> Thanks

for me, this works:

import string
buffer = r'value\key'
print string.split(buffer,"\\")

used python 2.1.1 on linux

felix



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