+1 Chris
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Victor Hooi <victorh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a line that looks like this:
>>
>> 14 *0 330 *0 760 411|0 0 770g 1544g 117g
>> 1414 computedshopcartdb:103.5% 0 30|0 0|1 19m 97m
>> 1538 ComputedCartRS PRI 09:40:26
>>
>> I'd like to split this line on multiple separators - in this case,
>> consecutive whitespace, as well as the pipe symbol (|).
>
> Correct me if I'm misanalyzing this, but it sounds to me like a simple
> transform-then-split would do the job:
>
> f.replace("|"," ").split()
>
> Turn those pipe characters into spaces, then split on whitespace. Or,
> reading it differently: Declare that pipe is another form of
> whitespace, then split on whitespace. Python lets you declare anything
> you like, same as mathematics does :)
>
> ChrisA
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