Anthony Liu wrote: > I have this simple string: > > mystr = 'this_NP is_VL funny_JJ' > > I want to split it and give me a list as > > ['this', 'NP', 'is', 'VL', 'funny', 'JJ'] > > 1. I tried mystr.split('_| '), but this gave me: > > ['this_NP is_VL funny_JJ'] > > It is not splitted at all.
Use re.split: >>> re.split('_| ', s) ['this', 'NP', 'is', 'VL', 'funny', 'JJ'] -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis To love without criticism is to be betrayed. -- Djuna Barnes -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list