Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:18:32 -0700, Chaim Krause wrote:
I have arrived here while attempting to break down a larger problem. I
got to this question when attempting to split a line on any whitespace
character so that I could then add several other characters like ';' and
':'. Ultimately splitting a line on any char in a union of
string.whitespace and some pre-designated chars.
I am now beginning to think that I have outgrown split() and must move
up to regular expressions. If that is the case, I will go off and RTFM
on RegEx.
Or just do this:
s = "the quick brown\tdog\njumps over\r\n\t the lazy dog"
s = s.replace('\t', ' ').replace('\n', ' ').replace('\r', ' ')
s.split(' ')
or even simpler:
s.split()
Or, for faster per-repetition (blending in to your use-case):
import string
SEP = string.maketrans('abc \t', ' ')
...
parts = 'whatever, abalone dudes'.translate(SEP).split()
print parts
['wh', 'tever,', 'lone', 'dudes']
--Scott David Daniels
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