using string.splitfields

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> Thomas Weholt <u970130 at studbo.hit.no> wrote:
> > Just wondering how I could use more field-separators when I use the
> > string.splitfield method.
> 
> you can't.  string.split can only
> deal with a single separator.
> 
> (string.splitfield is obsolete, btw.
> use string.split instead).
> 
> in this case, you can use
> re.split instead:
> 
> import re
> print re.split("[.+!]", "this.is+a!string")
> ## ['this', 'is', 'a', 'string']
> 
> </F>
> 
> coming soon:
> http://www.pythonware.com/people/fredrik/librarybook.htm

Or check out setsplit() in mxTextTools (see Python Pages below).

>>> import TextTools
>>> print TextTools.setsplit("this.is+a!string",TextTools.set(".+!"))
['this', 'is', 'a', 'string']

It's *much* faster than the re approach in case you care.

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