On Jan 23, 5:37 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:05:01 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:
> > ryan k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> Hello. I have a string like 'LNAME
> >> PASTA ZONE'. I want to create a list of those words and
> >> basically replace all the whitespace between them with one space so i
> >> could just do lala.split(). Thank you!
>
> > import re
> > s = 'LNAME PASTA ZONE'
> > re.split('\s+', s)
>
> Please tell me you're making fun of the poor newbie and didn't mean to
> seriously suggest using a regex merely to split on whitespace?
>
> >>> import timeit
> >>> timeit.Timer("s.split()", "s = 'one two three four'").repeat()
>
> [1.4074358940124512, 1.3505148887634277, 1.3469438552856445]>>>
> timeit.Timer("re.split('\s+', s)", "import re;s = 'one two
>
> three four'").repeat()
> [7.9205508232116699, 7.8833441734313965, 7.9301259517669678]
>
> --
> Steven
Much thanks to Machin for helping with the parsing job. Steven
D'Aprano, you are a prick.
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