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str.split() with separator grouping - Skaperen - Dec-14-2023
if sep is not given when calling str.split(), it combines runs of white-space as a single separator. if sep is given, then each character is a separator and empty strings can result when there are runs of the same character.
what i am looking for (to avoid implementing this) is a split() (and rsplit() variant) that can group runs of the same specified separator string together as a single separator. i will be doing this from back to front so i will be wanting an rsplit() variant of it.
for example, calling it gsplit:
foo = '/usr///bin///bar' bar = whatever.gsplit(foo,'/') print(repr(bar))
Output:[ '','usr','bin','bar']RE: str.split() with separator grouping - Gribouillis - Dec-14-2023
Use
re.split()>>> import re >>> foo = '/usr///bin///bar' >>> re.split(r'/+', foo) ['', 'usr', 'bin', 'bar'] >>>