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Python Data Type Q&A » string » Delimiter

1. Is there a method in python that's like os.path.split for other delimiters? stackoverflow.com

I want to use something like this:

os.path.split("C:\\a\\b\\c")

With this kind of output: ('C:\a\b', 'c')

However I want it to work on other delimiters like this:

method ('a_b_c_d')

With this kind of output: ('a_b_c', 'd')

2. Context-sensitive string splitting, preserving delimiters stackoverflow.com

I have a string of the form "foo-bar-1.23-4", and I need to split at the first hypen followed by a numeral, such that the result is ['foo-bar', '1.23-4']. I've tried the ...

3. Python: what kind of literal delimiter is "better" to use? stackoverflow.com

What is the best literal delimiter in Python adn why? Single ' or double "? And most important, why? I'm a begginer in Python and i'm trying to stick with just one. ...

4. tokenize a string keeping delimiters in Python stackoverflow.com

Is there any equivalent to str.split in Python that also returns the delimiters? I need to preserve the whitespace layout for my output after processing some of the tokens. Example:

>>> s="\tthis is an ...

5. Python: Split by 1 or more occurrences of a delimiter stackoverflow.com

I have a formatted string from a log file, which looks like:

>>> a="test                   ...

6. Split a string by a delimiter in python stackoverflow.com

How to split this string ans $$TEXT$$ is the delimiter.

  1.MATCHES$$TEXT$$STRING  
  2.MATCHES $$TEXT$$ STRING

7. Join string and None/string using optional delimiter stackoverflow.com

I am basically looking for the Python equivalent to this VB/VBA string operation:

FullName = LastName & ", " + FirstName

In VB/VBA + and & are both concatenation operators, but they differ ...

8. String Delimiter in Python stackoverflow.com

I want to do split a string using "},{" as the delimiter. I have tried various things but none of them work.

string="2,1,6,4,5,1},{8,1,4,9,6,6,7,0},{6,1,2,3,9},{2,3,5,4,3 "

Split it into something like this:

2,1,6,4,5,1
8,1,4,9,6,6,7,0
6,1,2,3,9
2,3,5,4,3

string.split("},{") works at the ...

9. Splitting 25mb .txt file into smaller files using text delimiter stackoverflow.com

Regards, SO I am new to python and Perl. I have been trying to solve a simple problem and getting tied in knots with syntax. I hope someone has the time ...

10. Splitting strings using a delimiter in python stackoverflow.com

OK so I have a string that has this:

Dan|warrior|54

I'm trying to make so I can use python and split it using | as the delimiter. Here's what I have so far:

#!/usr/bin/env ...

11. Python: Split string with multiple delimiters stackoverflow.com

I found some answers online, but I have no experience with regular expressions, which I believe is what is needed here. I have a string that needs to be split by either ...

12. manually splitting a string in python - issue with the last delimiter stackoverflow.com

i wrote this:

def split(line,delim):
    s=[]
    j=0
    for i in range (len(line)-1):
        if delim== line [i]:
 ...

13. Python split consecutive delimiters stackoverflow.com

The default split method in Python treats consecutive spaces as a single delimiter. But if you specify a delimiter string, consecutive delimiters are not collapsed:

>>> 'aaa'.split('a')
['', '', '', '']

What is ...

14. How to split string at a specific char(set of chars, actually), but with specified length stackoverflow.com

I'm pretty sure that there's such question.. Here's the issue - I want to split a string, using some specified chars as delimiters, but I also want the substrings to have length, ...

15. Appending various strings between two delimeters in one string. python stackoverflow.com

I've been stuck here a day. So I thought to ask the experts. I am reading contents from a file which has data in form

|something|
|something else|
|something_1
 something_2
 someting_3|
|something blah blah|

.. and so ...

16. Python Manipulating String stackoverflow.com

I have a "raw" variable that store:

*rawVariable =* "Hello" "World"  "String 1"  "String 2"  "String 3"  "Sting 4"   
"Hello" "World"  "String 5"  "String ...

17. Python split string with multiple-character delimiter stackoverflow.com

say I have the following string:

"Hello there. My name is Fred. I am 25.5 years old."

I want to split this into sentences, so that I have the following list:

["Hello there", "My ...

18. Split string, ignoring delimiter within quotation marks (python) stackoverflow.com

I would like to split a string on a comma, but ignore cases when it is within quotation marks: for example:

teststring = '48, "one, two", "2011/11/03"'
teststring.split(",")
['48', ' "one', ' two"', ' "2011/11/03"']

and ...