2009/9/15 Ulrich Eckhardt <eckha...@satorlaser.com>: > Hi! > > "'abc'.split('')" gives me a "ValueError: empty separator". > However, "''.join(['a', 'b', 'c'])" gives me "'abc'". > > Why this asymmetry? I was under the impression that the two would be > complementary. > > Uli >
maybe it isn't quite obvious, what the behaviour in this case should be; re.split also works with empty delimiter (and returns the original string) >>> re.split("", "abcde") ['abcde'] If you need to split the string into the list of single characters like in your example, list() is the possible way: >>> list("abcde") ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'] >>> vbr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list