On 08/02/2010 09:41 PM, John Nagle wrote: > 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.
[ s in rexp.split(long_s) if s ] > >> 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 > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
