Moving around in a string

Ryan Spencer jeder at earthlink.net
Sat Dec 6 13:19:59 EST 2003


On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 08:18:00 -0600, Mark Engle wrote:

> Peter Otten wrote:
> 
>> Mark Engle wrote:
>> > http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-string.html
>> > 
>> 
>> One caveat (only for the string module), quoting from the above
>> document, but easily overlooked:
>> 
>> "Many of the functions provided by this module are also defined as
>> methods of string and Unicode objects; see ``String Methods''
>> (section 2.2.6) for more information on those." 
>> 
>> So whenever you're tempted to write string.somefunc(s, moreargs),
>> rather use s.somefunc(moreargs).
>> 
>> Peter
> 
> Thank you.  Time to do some more reading.
> 
> Mark

Heya Mark,

	Thanks for the split function. It did the trick of splitting up the words
to the appropriate white space.

words_within = sentence.split()

When printed, it lists all the words separated by white
space. 

I'll be back after some more research however ;)

~Ryan






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