I am trying to split strings, which are separated by a variable number of spaces.
something like this:
abcde 123456
I know how to trim a string, but I am having hard time here, because the 2 strings has a variable amount of spaces. If a string is long, it will have less spaces in between, so I can't find a way to delimit them clearly, so I can save each of them in a different string.
How do you actually do so?
Use .split():
input = 'abcde 123456'
output = input.split()
print(output)
['abcde', '123456']
input.split() without any arguments?
.split() without argument would split based on all whitespaces - docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.splitPython string's have a method called split() just for this case. When called on a string with no arguments, it will split on space and strip out any number of leading and trailing spaces:
data = 'abcde 123456'
letters, numbers = data.split()
strip() if you are using split() without arguments, it would already have no leading or trailing spaces.
strip() after using split()Its the best way to remove the spaces before splitting:
import re
my_string = "abcde 123456"
regex = re.compile(r'( [ ]+)')
shortend_string = regex.sub(' ', a)
elements = shortend_string.split(' ')
split without any parameter and you're good to go.