Tutorial :Multi-split in Python

Question:

How would I split a string by two opposing values? For example ( and ) are the "deliminators" and I have the following string:

Wouldn't it be (most) beneficial to have (at least) some idea?

I need the following output (as an array)

["Wouldn't it be ", "most", " beneficial to have ", "at least", " some idea?"]

Solution:1

re.split()

s = "Wouldn't it be (most) beneficial to have (at least) some idea?"  l = re.split('[()]', s);

Solution:2

In this particular case, sounds like it would make more sense to first split by space and then trim the brackets.

out = []  for element in "Wouldn't it be (most) beneficial to have (at least) some idea?".split():    out.append(element.strip('()'))

Hm... re-reading the question, you wanted to preserve some of the spaces, so maybe not :) but keeping it here still.

Solution:3

Use a regular expression, matching both () characters:

import re  re.split('[()]', string)

Solution:4

You can use the split of a regular expression:

import re  pattern = re.compile(r'[()]')  pattern.split("Wouldn't it be (most) beneficial to have (at least) some idea?")  ["Wouldn't it be ", 'most', ' beneficial to have ', 'at least', ' some idea?']

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