more simple to split the string?

[luofeiyu]

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 >>> str='(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk) "/" "[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-"'
 >>> str.split(" ")
['(\\HasNoChildren', '\\Junk)', '"/"', '"[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-"']
 >>>

it can be split into four parts,you can see.


On 8/8/2014 1:43 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> 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-']
>