James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>The one I like best goes like this:
>
>py> data = "Guido van Rossum Tim Peters Thomas Liesner"
>py> names = [n for n in data.split() if n]
>py> names
>['Guido', 'van', 'Rossum', 'Tim', 'Peters', 'Thomas', 'Liesner']
>
>I think it is theoretically faster (and more pythonic) than using regexes.
But it is slower than this, which produces EXACTLY the same (incorrect)
result:
data = "Guido van Rossum Tim Peters Thomas Liesner"
names = data.split()
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