James Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Malcolm Wooden <mwooden <at> dtptypes.com> 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: >> >> 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.
[snip] > Now a "slim" version: > > s = "This is a sentence of words" > print s.split() To match the original program, it should be: s = "This is a sentence of words" a = s.split() ...assigning the list returned by split() to a variable called a. -- Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
