Regex driving me crazy...

[Patrick Maupin]

On Apr 7, 4:47 pm, Grant Edwards <inva... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2010-04-07, J <dreadpiratej... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Can someone make me un-crazy?
>
> Definitely.  Regex is driving you crazy, so don't use a regex.
>
>   inputString = "# 1  Short offline       Completed without error     00%       679         -"
>
>   print ' '.join(inputString.split()[4:-3])
>
> > So any ideas on what the best way to proceed with this would be?
>
> Anytime you have a problem with a regex, the first thing you should
> ask yourself:  "do I really, _really_ need a regex?
>
> Hint: the answer is usually "no".
>
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OK, fine.  Post a better solution to this problem than:

>>> import re
>>> re.split(' {2,}', '# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%')
['# 1', 'Short offline', 'Completed without error', '00%']
>>>

Regards,
Pat