On Jan 28, 8:27 am, Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 01/28/10 11:28, Brian D wrote:
>
>
>
> > I've tackled this kind of problem before by looping through a patterns
> > dictionary, but there must be a smarter approach.
>
> > Two addresses. Note that the first has incorrectly transposed the
> > direction and s
> Correction:
>
> [snip] the expression "parts[1 : -1]" means gather list items from the
> second element in the list (index value 1) to one index position
> before the end of the list. [snip]
MRAB's solution was deserving of a more complete solution:
>>> def parse_address(address):
# Ha
On 01/28/10 11:28, Brian D wrote:
> I've tackled this kind of problem before by looping through a patterns
> dictionary, but there must be a smarter approach.
>
> Two addresses. Note that the first has incorrectly transposed the
> direction and street name. The second has an extra space in it befo
On Jan 28, 7:40 am, Brian D wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > Regex doesn't gain you much. I'd split the string and then fix the parts
> > > as necessary:
>
> > > >>> def parse_address(address):
> > > ... parts = address.split()
> > > ... if parts[-2] == "S":
> > > ... parts[1 : -1] = [pa
> > [snip]
> > Regex doesn't gain you much. I'd split the string and then fix the parts
> > as necessary:
>
> > >>> def parse_address(address):
> > ... parts = address.split()
> > ... if parts[-2] == "S":
> > ... parts[1 : -1] = [parts[-2]] + parts[1 : -2]
> > ... parts[1 : -1]
On Jan 27, 7:27 pm, MRAB wrote:
> Brian D wrote:
> > I've tackled this kind of problem before by looping through a patterns
> > dictionary, but there must be a smarter approach.
>
> > Two addresses. Note that the first has incorrectly transposed the
> > direction and street name. The second has an
On Jan 27, 6:35 pm, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Brian D writes:
> > I've tackled this kind of problem before by looping through a patterns
> > dictionary, but there must be a smarter approach.>
> > Two addresses. Note that the first has incorrectly transposed the
> > direction and street name.
>
> I
Brian D wrote:
I've tackled this kind of problem before by looping through a patterns
dictionary, but there must be a smarter approach.
Two addresses. Note that the first has incorrectly transposed the
direction and street name. The second has an extra space in it before
the street type. Clearly
Brian D writes:
> I've tackled this kind of problem before by looping through a patterns
> dictionary, but there must be a smarter approach.>
> Two addresses. Note that the first has incorrectly transposed the
> direction and street name.
If you're really serious about it (e.g. you are the p
