Reading a file, sans whitespace

[Rick L. Ratzel]

    How about this:

 >>> import re
 >>> for line in open( "inputFile", "r" ).readlines():
...  print re.split( "\s+", line.strip() )
...
['Name:', 'Date:', 'Time:', 'Company:', 'Employee', 'Number:']
['Jim', '2.03.04', '12:00', 'JimEnt', '4']
['Steve', '3.04.32', '03:00', 'SteveEnt', '5']
 >>>

-Rick Ratzel


Uri wrote:
> I have a file that looks like this: (but longer, no wordwrap)
> 
> Name:     Date:     Time:   Company:   Employee Number:
> Jim       2.03.04    12:00 JimEnt                    4
> Steve     3.04.32    03:00 SteveEnt                  5
> 
> I want to load 'Jim' and '12:00' and those types of answers into
> variables in my program, the only delimiter in the file is whitespace.
> How do I do this?
> 
> I can do it with string.split(" ",[0]) type line for a file that's
> only delimited by single spaces, but when I'm searching for white
> space, how do I do it?
> 
> THanks!