On 2014-01-22 02:46, John Gordon wrote:
> > FarmID AddressNum AddressName
> > 1 1067 Niagara Stone
> > 2 4260 Mountainview
> > 3 25 Hunter
> > 4 1091 Hutchinson
>
> > I have struggled with this for a while and know there must be a
> > simple method to achieve this result.
>
> for line in input_lines:
> fields = line.split()
> farm_id = fields[0]
> address_num = fields[1]
> address_name = ' '.join(fields[2:])
Or, you can split of just the parts you need:
for line in input_lines:
farm_id, street_no, street_name = line.split(None, 2)
It doesn't address the issues that Ben raised about the crazy formats
you can find in addresses, but address-parsing is an twisty maze of
passages all alike.
-tkc
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