Help with splitting

[Brian Beck]

RickMuller wrote:
> There's a chance I was instead thinking of something in the re module,
> but I also spent some time there without luck. Could someone point me
> to the right function, if it exists?

The re solution Jeremy Bowers is what you want. Here's another (probably 
much slower) way for fun (with no surrounding empty strings):

py> from itertools import groupby
py> [''.join(g) for k, g in groupby('  test ing ', lambda x: x.isspace())]
['  ', 'test', ' ', 'ing', ' ']


I tried replacing the lambda thing with an attrgetter, but apparently my 
understanding of that isn't perfect... it groups by the identify of the 
bound method instead of calling it...

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Brian Beck
Adventurer of the First Order