Alemu Tadesse <atade...@sunedison.com> wrote: > Can we use rsplit function on an array or vector of strings ? it works > for one not for vector
> ... > > I have to parse a string and splitting it by spaces. The problem is > that the string can include substrings comprises by quotations which > must mantain the spaces. What I need is to pass from a string like: > > This is an 'example string' > > to the following vector: > > ["This", "is", "an", "example string"] > > Which is the best way to achieve this? > Thanks in advance! You can use a list comprehension: l2 = [x.rsplit(...) for x in l] But for the original question, maybe the csv module would be more useful: you can change delimiters and quotechars to match your input: import csv reader = csv.reader(open("foo.txt", "rb"), delimiter=' ', quotechar="'") for row in reader: print row Nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list