On Aug 2, 7:34 pm, John Nagle wrote:
> >>> s2 = " HELLO THERE "
> >>> kresplit4 = re.compile(r'\W+', re.UNICODE)
> >>> kresplit4.split(s2)
> ['', 'HELLO', 'THERE', '']
>
> I still get empty strings.
>>> re.findall(r"\w+", " a b c ")
['a', 'b', 'c']
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On 8/2/2010 5:53 PM, samwyse wrote:
On Aug 2, 12:34 pm, John Nagle wrote:
The regular expression "split" behaves slightly differently than string
split:
I'm going to argue that it's the string split that's behaving oddly.
I tend to agree.
It doesn't seem to be possible to get the sam
On Aug 2, 7:53 pm, samwyse wrote:
> It's the same results; however many people don't like these results
> because they feel that whitespace occupies a privileged role. People
> generally agree that a string of consecutive commas means missing
> values, but a string of consecutive spaces just mea
On Aug 2, 12:34 pm, John Nagle wrote:
> The regular expression "split" behaves slightly differently than string
> split:
I'm going to argue that it's the string split that's behaving oddly.
To see why, let's first look at some simple CSV values:
cat,dog
,missing,,values,
How many fields are on e
On 08/02/2010 11:22 PM, John Nagle wrote:
>> [ s in rexp.split(long_s) if s ]
>
>Of course I can discard the blank strings afterward, but
> is there some way to do it in the "split" operation? If
> not, then the default case for "split()" is too non-standard.
>
>(Also, "if s" won't work;
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:22 PM, John Nagle wrote:
> On 8/2/2010 12:52 PM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
>
>> On 08/02/2010 09:41 PM, John Nagle wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/2/2010 11:02 AM, MRAB wrote:
>>>
John Nagle wrote:
> The regular expression "split" behaves slightly differently than
> stri
On 8/2/2010 12:52 PM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
On 08/02/2010 09:41 PM, John Nagle wrote:
On 8/2/2010 11:02 AM, MRAB wrote:
John Nagle wrote:
The regular expression "split" behaves slightly differently than
string split:
occurrences of pattern", which is not too helpful.
It's the plain str.spl
On 08/02/2010 09:41 PM, John Nagle wrote:
> On 8/2/2010 11:02 AM, MRAB wrote:
>> John Nagle wrote:
>>> The regular expression "split" behaves slightly differently than
>>> string split:
> occurrences of pattern", which is not too helpful.
>>>
>> It's the plain str.split() which is unusual in that:
On 8/2/2010 11:02 AM, MRAB wrote:
John Nagle wrote:
The regular expression "split" behaves slightly differently than
string split:
occurrences of pattern", which is not too helpful.
It's the plain str.split() which is unusual in that:
1. it splits on sequences of whitespace instead of one p
John Nagle wrote:
> The regular string split operation doesn't yield empty strings:
>
> >>> " HELLO THERE ".split()
> ['HELLO', 'THERE']
Note that invocation without separator argument (or None as the separator)
is special in that respect:
>>> " hello there ".split(" ")
['', 'hello', 'ther
John Nagle wrote:
The regular expression "split" behaves slightly differently than string
split:
>>> import re
>>> kresplit = re.compile(r'[^\w\&]+',re.UNICODE)
>>> kresplit2.split(" HELLOTHERE ")
['', 'HELLO', 'THERE', '']
>>> kresplit2.split("VERISIGN INC.")
['VERISIGN', 'IN
The regular expression "split" behaves slightly differently than string
split:
>>> import re
>>> kresplit = re.compile(r'[^\w\&]+',re.UNICODE)
>>> kresplit2.split(" HELLOTHERE ")
['', 'HELLO', 'THERE', '']
>>> kresplit2.split("VERISIGN INC.")
['VERISIGN', 'INC', '']
I'd thought that
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