Yep, use regular expressions! For example, use the regular expression r',|\s+' to split on either (a) any amount of whitespace or (b) a single comma. Try this:
import re a='1,2,3,4,5 6 7,3,4' print re.split(r',|\s+*', a) Matthias Winterland wrote: > Hi, > > I have a simple question. When I read in a string like: > a='1,2,3,4,5 6 7,3,4', can I get the list l=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,3,4] with a > single split-call? > > Thx, > Matthias -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
