String Splitter Brain Teaser

[Bill Mill]

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> That is clearer.  At this point, though, you don't need the enumerator any more
> (so you can avoid indexing each item):

Good point.

> 
> def xgen(s):
>      srciter = iter(s)
>      item = [srciter.next()]
>      for i in srciter:
>          if i == '/':
>              item.append(srciter.next())
>          else:
>              yield item
>              item = [i]
>      yield item
> 

For some reason, keeping the != first feels a lot more logical to me,
but I think that's just a reflection of my particular mental model of
the problem. Also, item is a much clearer name than stack; I chose
stack just to point out how similar the solution to objection 2 was to
yours.

Peace
Bill Mill
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