I'm trying to break up the result tuple into keyword phrases. The keyword phrases are separated by a ; -- the split function is not working the way I believe it should be. Can anyone see what I"m doing wrong?
bests, -rsr- print "newstring =", str(result[i][0]) print "just split", str(result[i][0]).split('; ()[]"') zd.append(str(result[i][0]).split('; ()[]"')) result= (('Agricultural subsidies; Foreign aid',), ('Agriculture; Sustainable Agriculture - Support; Organic Agriculture; Pesticides, US, Childhood Development, Birth Defects; Toxic Chemicals',), ('Antibiotics, Animals',), ('Agricultural Subsidies, Global Trade',), ('Agricultural Subsidies',), ('Biodiversity',), ('Citizen Activism',), ('Community Gardens',), ('Cooperatives',), ('Dieting',), ('Agriculture, Cotton',), ('Agriculture, Global Trade',), ('Pesticides, Monsanto',), ('Agriculture, Seed',), ('Coffee, Hunger',), ('Pollution, Water, Feedlots',), ('Food Prices',), ('Agriculture, Workers',), ('Animal Feed, Corn, Pesticides',), ('Aquaculture',), ('Chemical Warfare',), ('Compost',), ('Debt',), ('Consumerism',), ('Fear',), ('Pesticides, US, Childhood Development, Birth Defects',), ('Corporate Reform, Personhood (Dem. Book)',), ('Corporate Reform, Personhood, Farming (Dem. Book)',), ('Crime Rates, Legislation, Education',), ('Debt, Credit Cards',), ('Democracy',), ('Population, World',), ('Income',), ('Democracy, Corporate partial results: string a = Agricultural subsidies; Foreign aid newstring = Agricultural subsidies; Foreign aid just split ['Agricultural subsidies; Foreign aid'] newstring = Agriculture; Sustainable Agriculture - Support; Organic Agriculture; Pesticides, US, Childhood Development, Birth Defects; Toxic Chemicals just split ['Agriculture; Sustainable Agriculture - Support; Organic Agriculture; Pesticides, US, Childhood Development, Birth Defects; Toxic Chemicals'] newstring = Antibiotics, Animals just split ['Antibiotics, Animals'] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list