Harlin Seritt wrote:
> {1:1} Random text here. {1:2} More text here. and so on.
>
> Of course the {*} can be of any length, so I can't just do .split()
> based on the length of the bracket text. What I would like to do is to
> .split() using something akin to this:
>
> textdata.split('{*}') # The '*' being a wildcard
>
> Is this possible to do? If so, how is it done?
>
You should look into re module.
regex has more flexible features for text processing than string
module or methods.
- Regular expression operations
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html
- HOWTO
http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/
In your case, the code would go like this:
>>> text = '{1:1} Random text here. {1:2} More text here. and so on.'
>>> import re
>>> pattern = re.compile('{\d+:\d+}')
>>> pattern.split(text)
['', ' Random text here. ', ' More text here. and so on.']
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