splitting a string into 2 new strings

[Mikael Olofsson]

Hi Mark!

You wrote:
> I have a string e.g. 'C6 H12 O6' that I wish to split up to give 2
> strings 'C H O' and '6 12 6'.  I have played with string.split() and
> the re module - but can't quite get there.

What about this?

import string
t='C6 H12 O6'
theLetters=''.join([x for x in t if x in string.letters+' '])
theDigits=''.join([x for x in t if x in string.digits+' '])

HTH
/Mikael

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