Kent Johnson wrote:
> James Stroud wrote:
>
>> The one I like best goes like this:
>>
>> py> data = "Guido van Rossum Tim Peters Thomas Liesner"
>> py> names = [n for n in data.split() if n]
>> py> names
>> ['Guido', 'van', 'Rossum', 'Tim', 'Peters', 'Thomas', 'Liesner']
>>
>> I think it is theoretically faster (and more pythonic) than using
>> regexes.
>
>
> Unfortunately it gives the wrong result.
>
> Kent
Just an example. Here is the "correct version":
names = [n for n in data.split(" ") if n]
James
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