How to parse a string completely into a list
I want to take a long alpha-numeric string with \n and white-space and place ALL elements of the string (even individual parts of a long white-space) into separate list elements. The most common way I've seen this performed is with the split() function, however I don't believe that it has the power to do what I am looking for. Any suggestions? thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: How to parse a string completely into a list
On Sep 24, 9:44 pm, "Chris Rebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:30 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I want to take a long alpha-numeric string with \n and white-space and
> > place ALL elements of the string (even individual parts of a long
> > white-space) into separate list elements. The most common way I've
> > seen this performed is with the split() function, however I don't
> > believe that it has the power to do what I am looking for.
> > Any suggestions?
> > thanks
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> Could you please define exactly what you mean by "elements" of a string?
>
> If you mean characters, then just use list():>>> list(" \n \t abc")
>
> [' ', ' ', '\n', ' ', '\t', ' ', 'a', 'b', 'c']
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
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Worked like a charm.
kudos!
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Re: How to parse a string completely into a list
On Sep 24, 10:12 pm, Matt Nordhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Sep 24, 9:44 pm, "Chris Rebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 8:30 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> I want to take a long alpha-numeric string with \n and white-space and
> >>> place ALL elements of the string (even individual parts of a long
> >>> white-space) into separate list elements. The most common way I've
> >>> seen this performed is with the split() function, however I don't
> >>> believe that it has the power to do what I am looking for.
> >>> Any suggestions?
> >>> thanks
> >> Could you please define exactly what you mean by "elements" of a string?
>
> >> If you mean characters, then just use list():>>> list(" \n \t abc")
>
> >> [' ', ' ', '\n', ' ', '\t', ' ', 'a', 'b', 'c']
>
> >> Regards,
> >> Chris
>
> > Worked like a charm.
> > kudos!
>
> Why do you need to convert it to a list? Strings are sequences, so you
> can do things like slice them or iterate through them by character:
>
> >>> for character in "foo":
>
> ... print character
> ...
> f
> o
> o
>
> --
The string draws a map that I then want to be able to traverse
through. If I can count through the individual characters of a list I
can create an x-y coordinate plane for navigation.
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Re: How to parse a string completely into a list
On Sep 25, 1:51 am, Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Sep 24, 10:12 pm, Matt Nordhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>> On Sep 24, 9:44 pm, "Chris Rebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Could you please define exactly what you mean by "elements" of a string?
> If you mean characters, then just use list():>>> list(" \n \t abc")
> [' ', ' ', '\n', ' ', '\t', ' ', 'a', 'b', 'c']
> Regards,
> Chris
> >>> Worked like a charm.
> >>> kudos!
> >> Why do you need to convert it to a list? Strings are sequences, so you
> >> can do things like slice them or iterate through them by character:
>
> > for character in "foo":
> >> ... print character
> >> ...
> >> f
> >> o
> >> o
>
> >> --
>
> > The string draws a map that I then want to be able to traverse
> > through. If I can count through the individual characters of a list I
> > can create an x-y coordinate plane for navigation.
>
> You can 'count' (whatever that means) equally in strings as you do in
> lists. As said above, they behave exactly the same. Just strings
> are imutable - e.g. you can't change individual parts of them.
>
> Tino
>
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Ahh, but I forgot to mention that I have to mark the path I took in
the string. So using list() and then join() are my best options.
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