split() with a separator set

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 19-Jun-00 Igor V. Rafienko wrote:
 > # input looks like this: 'foo:bar|baz/zot'
 > # I want [ 'foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'zot' ]
 >  string.split( src, ":|/" )
 >  
 >  doesn't work.

Igor!

Oleg just gave you a solution using re:s. If you try to avoid these 
animals, like I do, you could do the following:

seps = ':|/'
mystring = 'foo:bar|baz/zot'
newstring = string.join(map(lambda x, seps=seps:(x+seps[0])[x in seps],a),'')
result = string.split(newstring,seps[0])

Good luck!

/Mikael

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