As others have said, a concrete example would be great. For the time being, sounds like maybe regular expressions could do it. We don't know if your data is already in a list of small strings, or if it is just a huge string.
Take a look here for an intro to RE, though: http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/ Try to send a bit more specifics, we'll be here... Hugo Emily Patek wrote: > Hi - > I am trying to break apart a list into several smaller lists based on > repeating nearly identical entries. For example, every so often there is the > word CLUSTER with a number after it, like CLUSTER 1. I can find them one by > one, but would like to > do a while loop for while item in list = CLUSTER X. Is there a key that I > can put in that means "any text that comes after" that would go from cluster > to cluster without my typing in each cluster and number? I am a very > beginner programmer and am > trying to parse a file of gene-related information that is in a not-so-easy > format. I put it into a list based on lines through the splitlines() method. > I also thought about splitting the text by CLUSTER and then making each item > of the list into > a string that I could then split, but couldn't get that to work either... > > Thanks! > Emily > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
