On 08/08/2014 01:23, elearn wrote:
str='(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk) "/" "[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-"'
First up it's not usually a good idea to override the builtin name str.
x=str.split(' "') [i.replace('"','') for i in x] ['(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk)', '/', '[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-'] x.strip(" ") will create four parts.
I assume you meant x=str.split(" ") ? Even so I don't see how you can get four parts so please explain.
is there more simple to do that ?
No loop needed that I can see. >>> oldstr='(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk) "/" "[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-"';oldstr '(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk) "/" "[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-"' >>> newstr=oldstr.replace('"', '');newstr '(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk) / [Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-' >>> substrings=newstr.split();substrings ['(\\HasNoChildren', '\\Junk)', '/', '[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-'] -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list