[Tutor] Splitting at a capital letter in a string

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004, Douglas N. Shawhan wrote:
>Yep. re looks like the only way. I was just wondering if I was missing 
>something in String.
>
>Thanks! That's what I'll work with!

Glad to help.  I'm very much a python newbie after doing perl for over 15
years.  Having python doing perl-style regular expressions is very helpful
to me.

>Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Oct 29, 2004, Douglas N. Shawhan wrote:
>> 
>>
>>>Is there a way to use the string module to split a string at a capital, 
>>>so that:
>>>
>>>HiImAStringWithCaps
>>>
>>>is rendered
>>>
>>>Hi Im A String With Caps
>>>
>>>I looked at the re module, and it looks as if it could be used for such 
>>>shenannigans...
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>One way to do this would be:
>>
>>import re
>>pat = re.compile('([A-Z])')
>>s = pat.sub(r' \1', 'HiImAStringWithCaps').strip()
>>
>>The strip call gets rid of the first blank inserted.
>>
>>Bill
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