Cutting slices
Christian Gollwitzer
auriocus at gmx.de
Mon Mar 6 03:07:32 EST 2023
Am 05.03.23 um 23:43 schrieb Stefan Ram:
> The following behaviour of Python strikes me as being a bit
> "irregular". A user tries to chop of sections from a string,
> but does not use "split" because the separator might become
> more complicated so that a regular expression will be required
> to find it.
OK, so if you want to use an RE for splitting, can you not use
re.split() ? It basically works like the built-in splitting in AWK
>>> s='alphaAbetaBgamma'
>>> import re
>>> re.split(r'A|B|C', s)
['alpha', 'beta', 'gamma']
>>>
Christian
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