Hi all, i am having a textfile which contains a single string with names. I want to split this string into its records an put them into a list. In "normal" cases i would do something like:
> #!/usr/bin/python > inp = open("file") > data = inp.read() > names = data.split() > inp.close() The problem is, that the names contain spaces an the records are also just seprarated by spaces. The only thing i can rely on, ist that the recordseparator is always more than a single whitespace. I thought of something like defining the separator for split() by using a regex for "more than one whitespace". RegEx for whitespace is \s, but what would i use for "more than one"? \s+? TIA, Tom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list