On 5/14/2011 4:41 AM, Nobody wrote:
On Fri, 13 May 2011 10:15:29 -0700, noydb wrote:
I want some code to take the items in a semi-colon-delimted string "list"
and places each in a python list. I came up with below. In the name of
learning how to do things properly, do you experts have a better way of
doing it?
x = "red;blue;green;yellow" ## string of semi-colon delimited colors
Provided that a semicolon is *always* a delimiter, just use the .split()
method:
color_list = x.split(";")
For more complex formats, where there are quote and/or escape characters
which allow the delimiter to occur as part of an item, you typically need
to use a regular expression to match everything up to the next delimiter,
and do this in a loop to extract the individual items.
Or, for some formats, use the cvs module.
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