still having a heckuva time with this. here's where it stand - the split function doesn't seem to work the way i expect it to.
longkw1,type(longkw): Agricultural subsidies; Foreign aid;Agriculture; Sustainable Agriculture - Support; Organic Agriculture; Pesticides, US, Childhood Development, Birth Defects; <type 'list'> 1 longkw.replace(',',';') Agricultural subsidies; Foreign aid;Agriculture; Sustainable Agriculture - Support; Organic Agriculture; Pesticides, US, Childhood Development kw = longkw.split("; ,") #kw is now a list of len 1 kw,typekw= ['Agricultural subsidies; Foreign aid;Agriculture; Sustainable Agriculture - Support; Organic Agriculture; Pesticides, US, Childhood Development, Birth Defects; Toxic Chemicals;Antibiotics, Animals;Agricultural Subsidies what I would like is to break the string into a list of the delimited words, but have had no luck doing that - I thought split wuld do that, but it doens't. bests, -rsr- Robert Kern wrote: > ronrsr wrote: > > I have a single long string - I'd like to split it into a list of > > unique keywords. Sadly, the database wasn't designed to do this, so I > > must do this in Python - I'm having some trouble using the .split() > > function, it doesn't seem to do what I want it to - any ideas? > > Did you follow the recommendations given to you the last time you asked this > question? What did you try? What results do you want to get? > > -- > Robert Kern > > "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma > that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had > an underlying truth." > -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list