Split on multiple delimiters, and also treat consecutive delimiters as a single delimiter?

[Joel Goldstick]

+1 Chris

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Victor Hooi <victorhooi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a line that looks like this:
>>
>>     14     *0    330     *0     760   411|0       0   770g  1544g   117g   1414 computedshopcartdb:103.5%          0      30|0     0|1    19m    97m  1538 ComputedCartRS  PRI   09:40:26
>>
>> I'd like to split this line on multiple separators - in this case, consecutive whitespace, as well as the pipe symbol (|).
>
> Correct me if I'm misanalyzing this, but it sounds to me like a simple
> transform-then-split would do the job:
>
> f.replace("|"," ").split()
>
> Turn those pipe characters into spaces, then split on whitespace. Or,
> reading it differently: Declare that pipe is another form of
> whitespace, then split on whitespace. Python lets you declare anything
> you like, same as mathematics does :)
>
> ChrisA
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