On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:03:59 -0800, Ron Garret wrote:
> In article <gnkdal$bcq$0...@news.t-online.com>,
> Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>
>> Ron Garret wrote:
>>
>> > I'm trying to split a CamelCase string into its constituent
>> > components.
>>
>> How about
>>
>> >>> re.compile("[A-Za-z][a-z]*").findall("fooBarBaz")
>> ['foo', 'Bar', 'Baz']
>
> That's very clever. Thanks!
>
>> > (BTW, I tried looking at the source code for the re module, but I
>> > could not find the relevant code. re.split calls
>> > sre_compile.compile().split, but the string 'split' does not appear
>> > in sre_compile.py. So where does this method come from?)
>>
>> It's coded in C. The source is Modules/sremodule.c.
>
> Ah. Thanks!
>
> rg
This re.split() doesn't consume character:
>>> re.split('([A-Z][a-z]*)', 'fooBarBaz')
['foo', 'Bar', '', 'Baz', '']
it does what the OP wants, albeit with extra blank strings.
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