On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Chaim Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am unable to figure out why the first two statements work as I > expect them to and the next two do not. Namely, the first two spit the > sentence into its component words, while the latter two return the > whole sentence entact. > > import string > from string import whitespace > mytext = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.\n" > > print mytext.split() > print mytext.split(' ') > print mytext.split(whitespace) > print string.split(mytext, sep=whitespace)
Also note that a plain 'mytext.split()' with no arguments will split on any whitespace character like you're trying to do here. Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list