Splitting Strings
The split(separator) and splitlines(keeplineends) methods are provided by Python to split strings into substrings. The split method searches a string, splits it on each occurrence of the separator character, and subdivides it into a list of strings. If no separator character is specified, the split method will split the string at each occurrence of a whitespace character (space, tab, newline, and so on). The splitlines method splits the string at each newline character into a list of strings. This can be extremely useful when you are parsing a large amount of text. The splitlines method accepts one argument that is a Boolean true or false to determine whether the newline character should be kept. sentence = "A Simple Sentence." paragraph = "This is a simple paragraph.\n\ It is made up of of multiple\n\ lines of text." entry = "Name:Brad Dayley:Occupation:Software Engineer" print sentence.split() print entry.split(':') print paragraph.splitlines(1)split_str.py ['A', 'Simple', 'Sentence.'] ['Name', 'Brad Dayley', 'Occupation', 'Software Engineer'] ['This is a simple paragraph.\n', 'It is made up of of multiple\n', 'lines of text.'] Output from split_str.py code |
