Text parsing via regex

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Paul McGuire wrote:
> On Dec 8, 12:13 pm, Robocop <btha... at physics.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>> I'm having a little text parsing problem that i think would be really
>> quick to troubleshoot for someone more versed in python and Regexes.
>> I need to write a simple script that parses some arbitrarily long
>> string every 50 characters, and does not parse text in the middle of
>> words
> 
> Are you just wrapping text?  If so, then use the textwrap module.
> 
> import textwrap
> 
> source_string = "a bunch of nonsense that could be really long, or
> really short depending on the situation"
> 
> print textwrap.fill(source_string,50)
> print textwrap.wrap(source_string,50)
> 
> print map(len,textwrap.wrap(source_string,50))
> pad50 = lambda s : (s+ " "*50)[:50]
> print '|\n'.join(map(pad50,textwrap.wrap(source_string,50)))
> 
Instead of:

     pad50 = lambda s : (s+ " "*50)[:50]

you could use:

     pad50 = lambda s: s.ljust(50)

> Prints:
> 
> a bunch of nonsense that could be really long, or
> really short depending on the situation
> ['a bunch of nonsense that could be really long, or',
>  'really short depending on the situation']
> [49, 39]
> a bunch of nonsense that could be really long, or |
> really short depending on the situation
> 
> -- Paul
> 
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