Parsing Strings in Enclosed in Curly Braces

Chris Rebert clp2 at rebertia.com
Fri May 15 12:19:52 EDT 2009


On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:12 AM,  <xamalek at yahoo.com> wrote:
> How do you parse a string enclosed in Curly Braces?
>
> For instance:
>
> x = "{ABC EFG IJK LMN OPQ}"
>
> I want to do x.split('{} ') and it does not work. Why does it not work
> and what are EXCEPTIONS to using the split method?

.split() takes a *substring* to split on, *not* a set of individual
characters to split on. Read the Fine Docs.

> That I want to split based on '{', '}' and WHITESPACE.

Well, you could use a regex, or you could just .find() where the
braces are, slice them off the ends of the string, and then split the
result on space.

Cheers,
Chris
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