Awesome! (I was hoping it would be a 1-line solution. :) Thanks to batteries beign included, I don't necessarily need to worry about why and how .spilt() works. :)
Quoting Bob Gailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alan Gilfoy wrote: >> Hi. I want to learn how to "break down" a string into its component >> words, and then process each word somehow. >> >> Is there a way in Python to separate a string into its component words. >> >> Like this: >> "I would like to convert an English string (sentence) into Pig Latin." >> >> The Pig Latin conversion I think I can handle already (if not, I'll >> cross that bridge when I come to it.) However, what I want help >> on is how to make each word of the string a separate value, or at >> least make it able to index the string by word, as opposed to the >> standard method of strings being indexed by character. >> > > "I would like to convert an English string (sentence) into Pig > Latin.".split() > yields: > ["I", "would", "like", "to", "convert", "an", "English", "string", > "(sentence)", "into", "Pig Latin."] > > > -- > Bob Gailer > 510-978-4454 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
