String to sequence

[mattia]

Il Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:30:29 -0500, Tim Chase ha scritto:

>> How can I convert the following string:
>> 
>> 'AAR','ABZ','AGA','AHO','ALC','LEI','AOC',
>> EGC','SXF','BZR','BIQ','BLL','BHX','BLQ'
>> 
>> into this sequence:
>> 
>> ['AAR','ABZ','AGA','AHO','ALC','LEI','AOC',
>> EGC','SXF','BZR','BIQ','BLL','BHX','BLQ']
> 
> Though several other options have come through:
> 
>   >>> s = "'EGC','SXF','BZR','BIQ','BLL','BHX','BLQ'" import re
>   >>> r = re.compile("'([^']*)',?")
>   >>> r.findall(s)
>   ['EGC', 'SXF', 'BZR', 'BIQ', 'BLL', 'BHX', 'BLQ']
> 
> If you want to get really fancy, you can use the built-in csv parser:
> 
>   >>> import cStringIO
>   >>> st = cStringIO.StringIO(s)
>   >>> import csv
>   >>> class SingleQuoteDialect(csv.Dialect):
>   ...     quotechar = "'"
>   ...     quoting = csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL
>   ...     delimiter = ","
>   ...     doublequote = True
>   ...     escapechar = "\\"
>   ...     lineterminator = '\r\n'
>   ...     skipinitialspace = True
>   ...
>   >>> r = csv.reader(st, dialect=SingleQuoteDialect) r.next()
>   ['EGC', 'SXF', 'BZR', 'BIQ', 'BLL', 'BHX', 'BLQ']
> 
> 
> This gives you control over how any craziness gets handled, prescribing
> escaping, and allowing you to stream in the data from a file if you
> need.  However, if they're airport codes, I suspect the easy route of
> just using a regex will more than suffice.
> 
> -tkc

Yes, I'll use a regex to rule them all.