elearn wrote: > str='(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk) "/" "[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-"' > x=str.split(' "') > [i.replace('"','') for i in x] > ['(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk)', '/', '[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-'] > > x.strip(" ") will create four parts. > > is there more simple to do that ?
Here's another way: >>> s = '(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk) "/" "[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-"' >>> s.replace("(", '"').replace(")", '"').split('"')[1::2] ['\\HasNoChildren \\Junk', '/', '[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-'] But you should rather worry about correctness. Can '"' occur inside the parentheses and vice versa? Is there a way to escape '"'? Can parentheses be nested? Etc. The example is not sufficient to specify the problem. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list