"Kent Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > One regex can split apart a numeric part and a non-numeric unit:
> In [24]: splitter.findall('2m 4cm 3mm')
> Out[24]: [('2', 'm'), ('4', 'cm'), ('3', 'mm')]
As ever Kent, a neat solution. Much more efficient than
my 3 way search and relatively easy to split the list
apart for analysis.
Even the regex is cleaner! :-)
Alan G.
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