On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:18:32 -0700, Chaim Krause wrote: > I have arrived here while attempting to break down a larger problem. I > got to this question when attempting to split a line on any whitespace > character so that I could then add several other characters like ';' and > ':'. Ultimately splitting a line on any char in a union of > string.whitespace and some pre-designated chars. > > I am now beginning to think that I have outgrown split() and must move > up to regular expressions. If that is the case, I will go off and RTFM > on RegEx.
Or just do this: s = "the quick brown\tdog\njumps over\r\n\t the lazy dog" s = s.replace('\t', ' ').replace('\n', ' ').replace('\r', ' ') s.split(' ') or even simpler: s.split() -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list