On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:15:17 +0100, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>David Pratt wrote:
>
>> Hi. I am splitting a string on a non whitespace character. One or more
>> whitespace characters can be returned as items in the list. I do not
>> want the items in the list that are only whitespace
Hi Fredrik. Good to know. Many thanks for your replies.
Regards
David
On Saturday, November 26, 2005, at 12:27 PM, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> David Pratt wrote:
>
>> Also thanks for heads up for changes with method. I am
>> still using 2.3 but will move to 2.4 as soon as this is formally
>> approv
David Pratt wrote:
> Also thanks for heads up for changes with method. I am
> still using 2.3 but will move to 2.4 as soon as this is formally
> approved for use in Zope.
note that the string.split function has been "outdated" since Python
1.6 (released in 2000), and despite what the documentati
Hi Fredrik and Peter. Many thanks for this helpful advice :-) These
are very nice solutions and much better than what I had been
contemplating. Also thanks for heads up for changes with method. I am
still using 2.3 but will move to 2.4 as soon as this is formally
approved for use in Zope.
Re
Peter Otten wrote:
[t.strip() for t in s.split(",") if t and not t.isspace()]
> ['alpha', 'gamma', 'delta']
footnote: this solution is faster than my filter version.
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David Pratt wrote:
> Hi. I am splitting a string on a non whitespace character. One or more
> whitespace characters can be returned as items in the list. I do not
> want the items in the list that are only whitespace (can be one or more
> characters of whitespace) and plan to use string.strip on
David Pratt wrote:
> Hi. I am splitting a string on a non whitespace character. One or more
> whitespace characters can be returned as items in the list. I do not
> want the items in the list that are only whitespace (can be one or more
> characters of whitespace) and plan to use string.strip on
