On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Victor Bouffier wrote:
> Hi to all, > > I'd like to split a long string into equally long strings (len(str) = > 3). I did the following using regexes: > > >>> n = 'xb1jyzqnd1eenkokqnhep6vp692qi9tmag3owzqw0sdq3zjf' > >>> o = re.split(r'(...)', n) > >>> print o > ['', 'xb1', '', 'jyz', '', 'qnd', '', '1ee', '', 'nko', '', 'kqn', '', > 'hep', '', '6vp', '', '692', '', 'qi9', '', 'tma', '', 'g3o', '', 'wzq', > '', 'w0s', '', 'dq3', '', 'zjf', ''] > > Which gives me empty strings between each value. Hi Victor, Try using re.findall() instead of re.split(). The behavior you're seeing with split is perfectly logical: each pair of empty strings is being split by that three-character sequence. Best of wishes! _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
