Dasn wrote:
>
> Hi, there.
>
> 'lines' is a large list of strings each of which is seperated by '\t'
>>>> lines = ['bla\tbla\tblah', 'bh\tb\tb', ... ]
>
> I wanna split each string into a list. For speed, using map() instead
> of 'for' loop. 'map(str.split, lines)' works fine , but...
> when I was trying:
>
>>>> l = map(str.split('\t'), lines)
>
> I got "TypeError: 'list' object is not callable".
>
> To avoid function call overhead, I am not willing to use lambda function
> either. So how to put '\t' argument to split() in map() ?
You can't. Use a lambda or list-comprehension.
map(lambda l: l.split("\t"), lines)
[l.split("\t") for l in lines]
Diez
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