On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:52:07 -0700, 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']
> I think the documentation does say that the
> separator/delimiter can be a string representing all
> delimiters we want to use.
No, the delimiter is the delimiter, not a list of delimiters.
The only exception is delimiter=None, which splits on any whitespace.
[Aside: I think a split-on-any-delimiter function would be useful.]
> I do I split the string by using both ' ' and '_' as
> the delimiters at once?
Something like this:
mystr = 'this_NP is_VL funny_JJ'
L1 = mystr.split() # splits on whitespace
L2 = []
for item in L1:
L2.extend(item.split('_')
You can *almost* do that as a one-liner:
L2 = [item.split('_') for item in mystr.split()]
except that gives a list like this:
[['this', 'NP'], ['is', 'VL'], ['funny', 'JJ']]
which needs flattening.
--
Steven.
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
