That makes total sense now. I was just curious as to why it didn't output
the arbitrary delimiter in the list, or if there was a specific reason for
it.
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Danny Yoo <d...@hashcollision.org> wrote:
> One of the common cases for split() is to break a line into a list of
> words, for example.
>
> #####################################
> >>> 'hello this is a test'.split()
> ['hello', 'this', 'is', 'a', 'test']
> #####################################
>
> The Standard Library can not do everything that we can conceive of as
> being useful, because that set is fairly large.
>
> If the Standard Library doesn't do it, we'll probably need to do it
> ourselves, or find someone who has done it already.
>
>
> ##########################################
> >>> def mysplit(s, delim):
> ... start = 0
> ... while True:
> ... index = s.find(delim, start)
> ... if index != -1:
> ... yield s[start:index]
> ... yield delim
> ... start = index + len(delim)
> ... else:
> ... yield s[start:]
> ... return
> ...
> >>> list(mysplit("this,is,a,test", ","))
> ['this', ',', 'is', ',', 'a', ',', 'test']
> ##########################################
>
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Regards,
Christian Alexander
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