Problem splitting a string

[Mike Meyer]

Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> writes:
> Anthony Liu wrote:
>> I have this simple string:
>> 
>> mystr = 'this_NP is_VL funny_JJ'
>> 
>> I want to split it and give me a list as
>> 
>> ['this', 'NP', 'is', 'VL', 'funny', 'JJ']
> You could use regular expressions as Jason Stitt mentions, or you could
> replace '_' with ' ' and then split.
>
> In [2]: mystr = 'this_NP is_VL funny_JJ'
>
> In [3]: mystr.replace('_', ' ').split()
> Out[3]: ['this', 'NP', 'is', 'VL', 'funny', 'JJ']

A third alternative is to split once, then split the substrings a
second time and stitch the results back together:

>>> sum([x.split('_') for x in mystr.split()], [])
['this', 'NP', 'is', 'VL', 'funny', 'JJ']

Which is probably slow. To bad extend doesn't take multiple arguments.

         <mike
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