Newbie question regarding string.split()

[kevinliu23]

On Apr 21, 3:30 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
<bdesth.quelquech... at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> kevinliu23 a écrit :> Hey guys,
>
> > So I have a question regarding the split() function in the string
> > module. Let's say I have an string...
>
> > input = "2b 3 4bx 5b 2c 4a 5a 6"
> > projectOptions = (input.replace(" ", "")).split('2')
Thanks for all your help everyone. :)

> The parens around the call to input.replace are useless:
>    projectOptions = input.replace(" ", "").split('2')
>
> > print projectOptions
>
> > ['', 'b34bx5b', 'c4a5a6']
>
> (snip)
>
> > What can I do so that the first element is not an empty
> > string? but the 'b34bx5b' string as I expected?
>
> projectOptions = filter(None, input.replace(" ", "").split('2'))