On Dec 8, 12:13 pm, Robocop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a little text parsing problem that i think would be really > quick to troubleshoot for someone more versed in python and Regexes. > I need to write a simple script that parses some arbitrarily long > string every 50 characters, and does not parse text in the middle of > words
Are you just wrapping text? If so, then use the textwrap module. import textwrap source_string = "a bunch of nonsense that could be really long, or really short depending on the situation" print textwrap.fill(source_string,50) print textwrap.wrap(source_string,50) print map(len,textwrap.wrap(source_string,50)) pad50 = lambda s : (s+ " "*50)[:50] print '|\n'.join(map(pad50,textwrap.wrap(source_string,50))) Prints: a bunch of nonsense that could be really long, or really short depending on the situation ['a bunch of nonsense that could be really long, or', 'really short depending on the situation'] [49, 39] a bunch of nonsense that could be really long, or | really short depending on the situation -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
