Serge Orlov wrote: > Sambo wrote: > > I have just (finally) realized that it is splitting and removing > > on single space but that seams useless, and split items > > 1 and 2 are empty strings not spaces?? > > What is useless for you is worth $1,000,000 for somebody else ;) > If you have comma separated list '1,,2'.split(',') naturally returns > ['1', '', '2']. I think you can get what you want with a simple regexp.
No need for regexp in this case, just use None to specify one or more whitespace chars as delimiter: line.split(None,3) George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list