Re: How to parse a string completely into a list

2008-09-25 Thread john . ford
On Sep 25, 1:51 am, Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sep 24, 10:12 pm, Matt Nordhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> On Sep 24, 9:44 pm, "Chris Rebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could you please define exactly

Re: How to parse a string completely into a list

2008-09-24 Thread john . ford
On Sep 24, 10:12 pm, Matt Nordhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sep 24, 9:44 pm, "Chris Rebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:30 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I want to take a long alpha-numeric string with \n and white-space and >

Re: How to parse a string completely into a list

2008-09-24 Thread john . ford
On Sep 24, 9:44 pm, "Chris Rebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:30 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to take a long alpha-numeric string with \n and white-space and > > place ALL elements of the string (even individual parts of a long > > white-space) into separat

How to parse a string completely into a list

2008-09-24 Thread john . ford
I want to take a long alpha-numeric string with \n and white-space and place ALL elements of the string (even individual parts of a long white-space) into separate list elements. The most common way I've seen this performed is with the split() function, however I don't believe that it has the power