On 2010-04-08, Patrick Maupin <pmau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, my eyes completely missed your one-liner, so my criticism about > not posting a solution was unwarranted. I don't think you and I read > the problem the same way (which is probably why I didn't notice your > solution -- because it wasn't solving the problem I thought I saw).
No worries. > When I saw "And I am interested in the string that appears in the > third column, which changes as the test runs and then completes" I > assumed that, not only could that string change, but so could the one > before it. If that's the case, my solution won't work right. > I guess my base assumption that anything with words in it could > change. I was looking at the OP's attempt at a solution, and he > obviously felt he needed to see two or more spaces as an item > delimiter. If the requirement is indeed two or more spaces as a delimiter with spaces allowed in any field, then a regular expression split is probably the best solution. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list