On 2010-06-17, Robert Kern <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/17/10 2:08 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote:
>> On 2010-06-17, Ian Kelly<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Neil Cerutti
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> What's the best way to do the inverse operation of the .join
>>>> function?
>>>
>>> Use the str.split method?
>>
>> split is perfect except for what happens with an empty string.
>
> Why don't you try it and find out?
I'm currently using the following without problems, while reading
a data file. One of the fields is a comma separated list, and may
be empty.
f = rec['codes']
if f == "":
f = []
else:
f = f.split(",")
I just wondered if something smoother was available.
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