Re: s.split() on multiple separators

OK, so I want to split a string c into words using several different
separators from a list (dels).

I can do this the following C-like way:

c=' abcde abc cba fdsa bcd '.split()
dels='ce '
for j in dels:
cp=[]
for i in xrange(0,len(c)-1):
cp.extend(c[i].split(j))
c=cp


c
['ab', 'd', '', 'ab', '', '']


Given your original string, I'm not sure how that would be the
expected result of "split c on the characters in dels".

While there's a certain faction of pythonistas that don't esteem
regular expressions (or at least find them overused/misused,
which I'd certainly agree to), they may be able to serve your
purposes well:

>>> c=' abcde abc cba fdsa bcd '
>>> import re
>>> r = re.compile('[ce ]')
>>> r.split(c)
['', 'ab', 'd', '', 'ab', '', '', 'ba', 'fdsa', 'b', 'd', '']

given that a regexp object has a split() method.

-tkc



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