[Tutor] split or replace

[W W]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Norman Khine <norman at khine.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> What is the way to group each value so that I get a list, from a string
> like:
>
> dir = '/expert/forum/expert/expert'
> list = ['/expert', '/forum', '/expert', '/expert']
>
> I've tried:
> >>> dir = '/expert/forum'
> >>> dir.split('/')
> ['', 'expert', 'forum']
> >>> dir.replace("/expert","")
> '/forum'
> >>> dir = '/expert/forum/expert'
> >>> dir.replace("/expert","")
> '/forum'


will it always begin with /? and is there any reason you want to retain the
/? because this gets them without the /
>>> dir.split('/')[1:]
['expert', 'forum', 'expert', 'expert']

I think you might be able to use a list comprehension. Otherwise you could
do this:
>>> dir.replace('/',' /').split()
['/expert', '/forum', '/expert', '/expert']

HTH,
Wayne
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