James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The one I like best goes like this: > >py> data = "Guido van Rossum Tim Peters Thomas Liesner" >py> names = [n for n in data.split() if n] >py> names >['Guido', 'van', 'Rossum', 'Tim', 'Peters', 'Thomas', 'Liesner'] > >I think it is theoretically faster (and more pythonic) than using regexes.
But it is slower than this, which produces EXACTLY the same (incorrect) result: data = "Guido van Rossum Tim Peters Thomas Liesner" names = data.split() -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list