Look at the string.split() built-in, then you could use s.isalpha & s.isdigit to test each word... regular expressions would be the way to go, but that's a bit to chew on if you're getting started with string methods. You'll need to look at list indexing as well.
Kev SLC DOT GIS -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of cjl Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:47 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: newbie question: parsing street name from address P: I am working on a project that requires geocoding, and have written a very simple geocoder that uses the Google service. I would like to be able to extract the name of the street from the addresses in my data, however they vary significantly. Here a some examples: 25 Main St 2500 14th St 12 Bennet Pkwy Pearl St Bennet Rd and Main st 19th St As you can see, sometimes I have the house number, and sometimes I do not. Sometimes the street name is a number. Sometimes I simply have the names of intersecting streets. I would like to be able to parse the above into the following: Main St 14th St Bennet Pkwy Pearl St Bennet Rd Main St 19th St How might I approach this complex parsing problem? -CJL -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
