[Tutor] help with strings

[Darren Worrall]

On 03/02/10 13:19, NISA BALAKRISHNAN wrote:
> hi
>
> I am very new to python.
> I have a string for example : 123B     new Project
> i want to separate 123B as a single string and new  project as another 
> string .
> how can i do that.
> i tried using partition but couldnt do it
>
> pls help.
> thanks in advance!
>
>
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Assuming the whitespace isn't relevant, and is just a delimiter:

 >>> s = '123B     new Project'
 >>> s.split(None, 1)
['123B', 'new Project']

The first argument to split() is the delimiter (or if None, it defaults 
to whitespace), and the second argument is 'maxsplit' - the amount of 
splits to make. It's explained well in the documentation[1].

Cheers,

Daz

[1]http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#str.split
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