Sorry John but that don't do it for me. Just get errors comming back
"John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Malcolm Wooden wrote: >> I'm trying to get my head around Python but seem to be failing miserably. >> I use RealBasic on a Mac and find it an absolute dream! But >> Python....UGH! >> >> I want to put a sentence of words into an array, eg "This is a sentence >> of words" >> >> In RB it would be simple: >> >> Dim s as string >> Dim a(-1) as string >> Dim i as integer >> >> s = "This is a sentence of words" >> For i = 1 to CountFields(s," ") >> a.append NthField(s," ",i) >> next >> >> That's it an array a() containing the words of the sentence. >> >> Now can I see how this is done in Python? - nope! >> >> UGH! >> >> Malcolm >> (a disillusioned Python newbie) > > > >>> s = "This is a sentence of words" > >>> a = s.split() > >>> a > ['This', 'is', 'a', 'sentence', 'of', 'words'] > >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
