Splitting a list of strings

[Greg Ewing]

Sean Ross wrote:

> 
> What I'm interested in knowing is, can I extract all of the "attribute"
> strings from lines in such a way that I get my list of "attribute" strings,
> but all of those strings have been removed from lines as well, all at the
> same time?


     attributes = []
     data = []
     for line in lines:
       c = line[0]
       if c == "@":
         attributes.append(line)
       elif c <> "%":
         data.append(line)


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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
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