Re: How do I parse a string to a tuple??

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:47:32 -0700, Soren wrote:

Hi!

I have a string that contains some text and newline characters. I want
to parse the string so that the string just before a newline character
goes in as an element in the tuple.

ex:

"text1 \n text2 \n text3 \n text4" --> (text1, text2, text3, text4)

Is there an easy way to do this?

the_string = "text1 \n text2 \n text3 \n text4"
tuple(the_string.split('\n'))

If you don't need a tuple, and a list will do:

the_string.split('\n')

If you want to get rid of the white space after each chunk of text:

[s.strip() for s in the_string.split('\n')]




--
Steven D'Aprano

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