[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> OK, so I want to split a string c into words using several different
> separators from a list (dels).
>
> I can do this the following C-like way:
>
> c=' abcde abc cba fdsa bcd '.split()
> dels='ce '
> for j in dels:
> cp=[]
> for i in xrange(0,len(c)-1):
The "-1" looks like a bug; remember in Python 'stop' bounds
are exclusive. The indexes of c are simply xrange(len(c)).
Python 2.3 and up offers: for (i, word) in enumerate(c):
> cp.extend(c[i].split(j))
> c=cp
>
>
> c
> ['ab', 'd', '', 'ab', '', '']
The bug lost some words, such as 'fdsa'.
> But. Surely there is a more Pythonic way to do this?
When string.split() doesn't quite cut it, try re.split(), or
maybe re.findall(). Is one of these what you want?
import re
c = ' abcde abc cba fdsa bcd '
print re.split('[ce ]', c)
print re.split('[ce ]+', c)
print re.findall('[^ce ]+', c)
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