[Tutor] Splitting by word boundaries

[David Rock]

* Jonathan Hayward http://JonathansCorner.com <jonathan.hayward at pobox.com> [2003-08-14 18:28]:
> I'm trying to split along word boundaries, but when I pass e.g. "a b c 
> d" to:
> 
>        text_tokens = re.split("\b", text)
> 
> But the re.split seems to return a list with only one string, the uncut 
> text. Comments?

If you are splitting by word boundaries, why not just use string.split?
The default split is whitespace:
	import string
	test = 'a b c d'
	split_test = string.split( test )

-- 
David Rock
david at graniteweb.com
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