Re: splitting a long string into a list

"ronrsr" <ronrsr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a single long string - I'd like to split it into a list of
unique keywords. Sadly, the database wasn't designed to do this, so I
must do this in Python - I'm having some trouble using the .split()
function, it doesn't seem to do what I want it to - any ideas?

thanks very much for your help.

r-sr-


longstring = 'Agricultural subsidies; Foreign aidAgriculture;
Sustainable Agriculture - Support; Organic Agriculture; Pesticides, US,
Childhood Development, Birth Defects; Toxic ChemicalsAntibiotics,
AnimalsAgricultural Subsidies, Global TradeAgricultural
SubsidiesBiodiversityCitizen ActivismCommunity...

What do you want out of this? It looks like there are several levels
crammed together here. At first blush, it looks like topics separated by
"; ", so this should get you started:

topics = longstring.split("; ")
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Tim Roberts, timr@xxxxxxxxx
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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