[Tutor] help with re.split use

[orbitz at ezabel.com]

It isn't regular character and neds to be represented using an esacpe
code. if you do: print contact[1] it sohuld print Camirée.


On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:06:07 -0500
Michel Bélanger <michel.belanger at seidel.ca> wrote:

> Yes, it did work.
> 
> Now When I run the following code I get:
> 
> # -*- coding: cp1252 -*-
> row = "Genevieve Camirée"
> contact = row.split()
> print row, contact
> 
> Genevieve Camirée ['Genevieve', 'Camir\xe9e']
> 
> Do you have any idea about the 'é' why it get modify to '\xe9e' in the
> 
> process?
> 
> Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> 
> > Think you meant:
> >     somestring.split(' ')
> > Actually split defaults to ALL whitspace characters  so you can 
> > probably omit ' '
> > and still get what you want.
> >
> > Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
> >
> >> Michel_Bélanger wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I  use the re.split function to parse Fisrt and Last
> >>> name from a contact field.  I use the following command:   
> >>> # -*- coding: cp1252 -*-
> >>> import csv
> >>> import re
> >>> row = "Genevieve Camiré"
> >>> contact = re.split(' ',row)
> >>> print row, contact, len(contact)
> >>>
> >>> This generate the following results:
> >>> Genevieve Camiré ['Genevieve', 'Camir\xe9'] 2
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> question1:  When I first ran the code, I had and I/O
> >>> warning message which  ended up with the addition of the first
> >line>> of code  # -*- coding: cp1252 -*-  What is it for?
> >>>
> >>> question2:  Why the word 'Camiré' got changed to
> >>> 'Camir\xe9'
> >>>
> >>> question3: Some of the row from my contacts list
> >>> contain only one word which result with contact been a list of 
> >>> length 1. Is it possible to add an argument to the split function
> >so >> that it
> >>> generates an empty string for the second item in contact list:
> >i.e.>>
> >>> row = "Belanger"
> >>> after split function is applied to row
> >>> contact = ['Belanger','']
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Don't use re.split(' ', somestring), use
> >> ' '.split(somestring). That fixes your problem. Only
> >> use the re module when you're not just matching a
> >> string.
> >>
> >> Daniel Ehrenberg
> >>
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