Paul McGuire wrote:
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)))
Instead of:
pad50 = lambda s : (s+ " "*50)[:50]
you could use:
pad50 = lambda s: s.ljust(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
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