On Jan 24, 6:05 am, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ryan k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hello. I have a string like 'LNAME > > PASTA ZONE'. I want to create a list of those words and > > basically replace all the whitespace between them with one space so i > > could just do lala.split(). Thank you! > > import re > s = 'LNAME PASTA ZONE' > re.split('\s+', s)
That is (a) excessive for the OP's problem as stated and (b) unlike str.split will cause him to cut you out of his will if his problem turns out to include leading/trailing whitespace: >>> lala = ' LNAME PASTA ZONE ' >>> import re >>> re.split(r'\s+', lala) ['', 'LNAME', 'PASTA', 'ZONE', ''] >>> lala.split() ['LNAME', 'PASTA', 'ZONE'] >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
