[Tutor] Finding items in a list

[Hugo González Monteverde]

As others have said, a concrete example would be great. For the time 
being, sounds like maybe regular expressions could do it. We don't know 
if your data is already in a list of small strings, or if it is just a 
huge string.

Take a look here for an intro to RE, though:

http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/

Try to send a bit more specifics, we'll be here...

Hugo

Emily Patek wrote:
> Hi - 
> I am trying to break apart a list into several smaller lists based on repeating nearly identical entries.  For example, every so often there is the word CLUSTER with a number after it, like CLUSTER 1.  I can find them one by one, but would like to
> do a while loop for while item in list = CLUSTER X.  Is there a key that I can put in that means "any text that comes after" that would go from cluster to cluster without my typing in each cluster and number?  I am a very beginner programmer and am
> trying to parse a file of gene-related information that is in a not-so-easy format.  I put it into a list based on lines through the splitlines() method.  I also thought about splitting the text by CLUSTER and then making each item of the list into
> a string that I could then split, but couldn't get that to work either...
> 
> Thanks! 
> Emily
> 
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