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



Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:47:32 -0700, Soren wrote:
"text1 \n text2 \n text3 \n text4" --> (text1, text2, text3, text4)

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')

or the_string.splitlines()

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

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