On 11/08/2011 11:56 AM, Cranky Frankie wrote:
How do you tell how many splits the string split funtion returns? For example:
field = 'The Good Wife ;' # a string separated by spaces
new_list = field.split(' ') # create a list of space delimited elements
print (new_list[0]) # print the first one
print (new_list[1]) # print the second one
print (new_list[2]) # print the third one
print (new_list[3]) # print the fourth one
print (new_list[4]) # print the fifth one
The last line above causes an error. I plan on reading in a file where
I don't know what the number of splits will be. How can I find out
before trying to access an out of range index?
In general, the len() function tells you how many elements a collection
has, and in particular split() returns a list, which is supported by len().
But for the printing example, you could also do:
for item in newlist:
print(item)
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DaveA
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