more simple to split the string?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 08/08/2014 01:23, elearn wrote:
> str='(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk) "/" "[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-"'

First up it's not usually a good idea to override the builtin name str.

> x=str.split(' "')
> [i.replace('"','') for i in x]
> ['(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk)', '/', '[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-']
>
> x.strip(" ") will create four parts.

I assume you meant x=str.split(" ") ?  Even so I don't see how you can 
get four parts so please explain.

>
> is there more simple to do that ?

No loop needed that I can see.

 >>> oldstr='(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk) "/" "[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-"';oldstr
'(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk) "/" "[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-"'
 >>> newstr=oldstr.replace('"', '');newstr
'(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk) / [Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-'
 >>> substrings=newstr.split();substrings
['(\\HasNoChildren', '\\Junk)', '/', '[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-']

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