String Splitter Brain Teaser

[James Stroud]

On Sunday 27 March 2005 05:04 pm, Michael Spencer wrote:
>   >>> def group(src):
>   ...     stack = []
>   ...     srciter = iter(src)
>   ...     for i in srciter:
>   ...         if i == "/":
>   ...             stack[-1].append(srciter.next())
>   ...         else:
>   ...             stack.append([i])
>   ...     return stack

Very pretty:

group("AGC/C/TGA/T")
[['A'], ['G'], ['C', 'C', 'T'], ['G'], ['A', 'T']]


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James Stroud, Ph.D.
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