need fast parser for comma/space delimited numbers

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <m2ya7gz7hv.fsf at netmeg.net>,
Les Schaffer  <godzilla at netmeg.net> wrote:
>
>    def __breakStringOnSpace(self, str):
>
>	"""break one line str containing numbers in a string format on
>	whitespace (or comma), return array with the strings representing the
>	numbers."""
>
>        return filter(None, string.splitfields(str, self.splitStr)  )

Why are you using filter?  Why not just

return string.split(str, self.splitStr)
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