k...@fiber-space.de wrote:
> ttable = string.maketrans("{} ", "\1\1\1")
> print x.translate(ttable).split("\1") # -> ['', 'ABC', 'EFG', 'IJK',
> 'LMN', 'OPQ', '']
>
> The validity of the translation+split depends on the presence of \1 in
> the original string of course.
Keep one of the splitting characters to avoid that (theoretical) risk:
ttable = string.maketrans("{} ", "{{{")
Peter
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