On 31/05/2006 8:17 PM, Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
> John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Whitespace is a silly term, anyway (IMHO); is there such a
>> thing as a space that is not white?
>
> Yes, if you go back to the term's origins in printshops. A solid
> block of ink is space, not print, but
John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Whitespace is a silly term, anyway (IMHO); is there such a
>thing as a space that is not white?
Yes, if you go back to the term's origins in printshops. A solid
block of ink is space, not print, but it's not whitespace. We've
kept the word alive, even if
On 31/05/2006 5:55 AM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Sat, 27 May 2006 11:11:40 +1000, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
>> Yes, you could write out the whitespace characters for the 8-bit
>> encoding of your choice, or you could find them using Python (and get
>> some possibly surprising an
On Sat, 27 May 2006 11:11:40 +1000, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> Yes, you could write out the whitespace characters for the 8-bit
> encoding of your choice, or you could find them using Python (and get
> some possibly surprising answers):
>
> >>> mkws = lambda enc, sz=256: "".join
On 27/05/2006 9:51 AM, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
>> how can i split a string that contains white spaces and '_'
>>
>> any clue?
>
> If the white spaces and the '_' should be applied equivalently on the
> input and you can enumerate all white space characters, you could do
> like this:
Yes, you could
On 27/05/2006 9:15 AM, M.N.A.Smadi wrote:
> hi guys;
>
> sorry for sending a perl question here, but python guy "HAD TO" look at
> perl code;
>
> how can i split a string that contains white spaces and '_'
>
> any clue?
>
> thanks
> moe smadi
Well the screamingly obvious way to do in Python w
> how can i split a string that contains white spaces and '_'
>
> any clue?
If the white spaces and the '_' should be applied equivalently on the
input and you can enumerate all white space characters, you could do
like this:
def split_helper(list, delims):
if not delims:
return list
hi guys;
sorry for sending a perl question here, but python guy "HAD TO" look at
perl code;
how can i split a string that contains white spaces and '_'
any clue?
thanks
moe smadi
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