On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:53:30 -0700, Chaim Krause wrote:
> I am unable to figure out why the first two statements work as I expect
> them to and the next two do not. Namely, the first two spit the sentence
> into its component words, while the latter two return the whole sentence
> entact.
>
> import string
> from string import whitespace
> mytext = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.\n"
>
> print mytext.split()
> print mytext.split(' ')
This splits at the string ' '.
> print mytext.split(whitespace)
This splits at the string '\t\n\x0b\x0c\r ' which doesn't occur in
`mytext`. The argument is a string not a set of characters.
> print string.split(mytext, sep=whitespace)
Same here.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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