Never mind. I guess I had been trying to make it more difficult than it is. As a note, I can work on something for 10 hours and not figure it out. But the second I post to a group, then I immediately figure it out myself. Strange snake this Python...
Example for anyone else interested: line = "this is a line" print line a = line.split() print a print a[0] print a[1] print a[2] print a[3] ------ OUTPUT: this is a line ['this', 'is', 'a', 'line'] this is a line On Sep 10, 11:36 am, AJAskey <aske...@gmail.com> wrote: > New to Python. I can solve the problem in perl by using "split()" to > an array. Can't figure it out in Python. > > I'm reading variable lines of text. I want to use the first number I > find. The problem is the lines are variable. > > Input example: > this is a number: 1 > here are some numbers 1 2 3 4 > > In both lines I am only interested in the "1". I can't figure out how > to use "split()" as it appears to make me know how many space > separated "words" are in the line. I do not know this. > > I use: a,b,c,e = split() to get the first line in the example. The > second line causes a runtime exception. Can I use "split" for this? > Is there another simple way to break the "words" into an array that I > can loop over? > > Thanks. > Andy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
