Re: getting words from readline

2005-09-11 Thread Do Re Mi chel La Si Do 
Hi !

Look :   .split()

@-salutations

Michel Claveau 


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Re: getting words from readline

2005-09-11 Thread Steve Holden 
Adam wrote:
 How is best to extract word strings from a 
 line = infile.readline()  
 
 I wish to quickly check the first word of 
 each line of a text file. 
 
 Indeed, How do I break a lineinput() line 
 into component words (separate by spaces etc) ?
 
 Should I be looking at; 
 Re Parser Slice StringIO ? 
 
 
 Any help appreciated. 
 
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   s = This is a line of text
   s.split()
['This', 'is', 'a', 'line', 'of', 'text']
   l = s.split()
   l[0]
'This'
  

As you can see above, you probably don't need any complicated modules 
for this fairly simple requirement. If you are wanting to match the 
words against each other, or against some pre-exisitng list, you might 
want to reduce the input to lower-case first.

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  Steve
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Re: getting words from readline

2005-09-11 Thread Adam 

Ouch.  That is simple with .split 

I must have got confused amongst 
slice re etc. searching searching. 

Thanks folks.  Painless. 

 
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getting words from readline

2005-09-10 Thread Adam 

How is best to extract word strings from a 
line = infile.readline()  

I wish to quickly check the first word of 
each line of a text file. 

Indeed, How do I break a lineinput() line 
into component words (separate by spaces etc) ?

Should I be looking at; 
Re Parser Slice StringIO ? 


Any help appreciated. 




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