[Tutor] parsing a blank-separated string into a list

[Daniel Coughlin]

What I wrote below works for Python 2.0 , and I dont know when it was
implemented, but it
definitely doesnt work on my Linux box, which is running python 1.5.2. For that,
I did the following:

import re
jmelist = re.split(' ', jmevalue)

Hope that helps, and sorry for any confusions for people with older versions ;-)



On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Daniel Coughlin wrote:

> Hey Eugene,
>
> Long time since Planeria, eh?
>
> try
> >>jmevalue = ' 10 11 C 9.13 ect '
> >>jmelist = jmevalue.split(' ')
> >>jmelist
> ['10', '11', 'C', '9.13', etc]
>
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> >
> > Assuming, I have a string like this (produced by the JME applet,
> > encoding a molecule I entered):
> >
> > 10 11 C 9.13 -8.85 C 10.34 -8.15 C 7.92 -8.15 C 10.34 -6.75 C 7.92 -6.75 C
> > 8.43 -3.89 C 9.83 -3.89 C 8.00 -5.23 C 10.26 -5.23 C+ 9.13 -6.05 1 2 2 1 3
> > 1 2 4 1 3 5 2 4 10 2 5 10 1 6 7 1 6 8 1 7 9 1 8 10 1 9 10 1
> >
> > And want to turn it into a list like this:
> >
> > [10, 11, C, 9.13 ... ]
> >
> > How do I do it?
> >
> > jmelist = map(None, jmevalue) produces
> >
> > [1, 0, 1, 1, C, ...], whereas I want the blank-separted atoms.
> >
> > Is there an idiom for that? (I mean, it's of course possible to do it by
> > hand, but it's not Python Zen).
> >
> >
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