Thomas Liesner wrote: > Hi all, > > i am having a textfile which contains a single string with names. > I want to split this string into its records an put them into a list. > In "normal" cases i would do something like: > > > #!/usr/bin/python > > inp = open("file") > > data = inp.read() > > names = data.split() > > inp.close() > > The problem is, that the names contain spaces an the records are also > just seprarated by spaces. The only thing i can rely on, ist that the > recordseparator is always more than a single whitespace. > > I thought of something like defining the separator for split() by using > a regex for "more than one whitespace". RegEx for whitespace is \s, but > what would i use for "more than one"? \s+? > Can I just use "two space" as the seperator ?
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