On 8/2/2010 11:02 AM, MRAB wrote:
John Nagle wrote:
The regular expression "split" behaves slightly differently than
string split:
occurrences of pattern", which is not too helpful.
It's the plain str.split() which is unusual in that:
1. it splits on sequences of whitespace instead of one per occurrence;
That can be emulated with the obvious regular expression:
re.compile(r'\W+')
2. it discards leading and trailing sequences of whitespace.
But that can't, or at least I can't figure out how to do it.
It just happens that the unusual one is the most commonly used one, if
you see what I mean! :-)
The no-argument form of "split" shouldn't be that much of a special
case.
John Nagle
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