Malcolm Wooden wrote:
> I'm trying to get my head around Python but seem to be failing miserably. I
> use RealBasic on a Mac and find it an absolute dream! But Python....UGH!
Strange enough, Rb was one of my first languages, and last time I played
with it, I founhd it was close to a nightmare when compared to Python...
>
> I want to put a sentence of words into an array, eg "This is a sentence of
> words"
>
> In RB it would be simple:
>
> Dim s as string
> Dim a(-1) as string
> Dim i as integer
>
> s = "This is a sentence of words"
> For i = 1 to CountFields(s," ")
> a.append NthField(s," ",i)
> next
>
> That's it an array a() containing the words of the sentence.
<sarcastic>
Ho, yes, so simple... only seven lines...
</sarcastic>
> Now can I see how this is done in Python? - nope!
Why not ?
a = "This is a sentence of words".split()
Now *this* is simplicity, my friend...
> UGH!
>
> Malcolm
> (a disillusioned Python newbie)
>
So I'll leave you to your disi^M^M^Mdelusion...
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