Yes Sergei, as 3 of the lines are Dim statements, the real code is just 4 lines, a totally logical. It's not the amout of code thats a probelm, it's following the logic and structure thats important. As I said Python.. UGH!
Malcolm "Sergei Organov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Malcolm Wooden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 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: > > Simple?! 7 lines of code for such a trivial task is 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! > > from string import split > s = "This is a sentence of words" > a = split(s) > > or, > > s = "This is a sentence of words" > a = s.split() > > or even > > a = "This is a sentence of words".split() > > -- > Sergei. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
