On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:30 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to take a long alpha-numeric string with \n and white-space and > place ALL elements of the string (even individual parts of a long > white-space) into separate list elements. The most common way I've > seen this performed is with the split() function, however I don't > believe that it has the power to do what I am looking for. > Any suggestions? > thanks > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Could you please define exactly what you mean by "elements" of a string? If you mean characters, then just use list(): >>> list(" \n \t abc") [' ', ' ', '\n', ' ', '\t', ' ', 'a', 'b', 'c'] Regards, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list