Strings for a newbie

[Sergei Organov]

"Malcolm Wooden" <mwooden at dtptypes.com> writes:

> I'm trying to get my head around Python but seem to be failing miserably. I 
> use RealBasic on a Mac and find it an absolute dream! But Python....UGH!
> 
> I want to put a sentence of words into an array, eg "This is a sentence of 
> words"
> 
> In RB it would be simple:

Simple?! 7 lines of code for such a trivial task is simple?!

> Dim s as string
> Dim a(-1) as string
> Dim i as integer
> 
> s = "This is a sentence of words"
> For i = 1 to CountFields(s," ")
>   a.append NthField(s," ",i)
> next
> 
> That's it an array a() containing the words of the sentence.
> 
> Now can I see how this is done in Python? - nope!

from string import split
s = "This is a sentence of words"
a = split(s)

or,

s = "This is a sentence of words"
a = s.split()

or even

a = "This is a sentence of words".split()

-- 
Sergei.