Danny Yoo 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']
> ##########################################
The standard library does provide a way to split a string and preserve the
delimiters:
>>> import re
>>> re.split("(,)", "this,is,a,test")
['this', ',', 'is', ',', 'a', ',', 'test']
It is very flexible...
>>> re.split("([-+*/])", "alpha*beta/gamma-delta")
['alpha', '*', 'beta', '/', 'gamma', '-', 'delta']
but you need to learn a mini-language called "regular expressions" and it
takes some time to get used to them and to avoid the pitfalls (try to swap
the "-" and "+" in my second example).
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