[Tutor] tokenizing a simple string with split()

[David Heiser]

Or you can try something like:

x = r"C:\My\Doc\;D:\backup"
x = x.replace("\\", ";")
x = x.split(";")


-----Original Message-----
From: tutor-bounces at python.org [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org] On
Behalf Of Kent Johnson
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 9:42 PM
To: Andrei Petre
Cc: tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] tokenizing a simple string with split()


Andrei Petre wrote:
> I want to split a string like "C:\My\Doc\;D:\backup\" with two
> separators: \ and ;
> I found that \ is handled with /raw string/ notation r"". But the 
> problem i encountered is with split() function.
> In the 2.5 reference is said that "The sep argument of the split() 
> function may consist of multiple characters". 

The argument to split() is the literal string to split on, not a list of

potential splitting characters. So to split on '; ' your string would 
have to be 'spam; egg; mail'.

To split on one of a list of characters you have to use a regular 
expression and re.split().

In [1]: import re
In [3]: re.split('[; ]', "spam;egg mail")
Out[3]: ['spam', 'egg', 'mail']

[; ] is a regular expression that means, "match either of ; or space".

Kent
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