Python: Split by 1 or more occurrences of a delimiter
- by Adam Matan
Hi,
I have a formatted string from a log file, which looks like:
>>> a="test result"
That is, the test and the result are split by some spaces - it was probably created using formatted string which gave test some constant spacing.
Simple splitting won't do the trick:
>>> a.split(" ")
['test', '', '', '', ... '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', 'result']
split(DELIMITER, COUNT) cleared some unnecessary values:
>>> a.split(" ",1)
['test', ' result']
This helped - but of course, I really need:
['test', 'result']
I can use split() followed by map + strip(), but I wondered if there is a more Pythonic way to do it.
Thanks,
Adam