I have a string like this:
'|Action and Adventure|Drama|Science-Fiction|Fantasy|'
How can I convert it to a tuple or a list?
Thanks.
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6 Answers
>>> s = '|Action and Adventure|Drama|Science-Fiction|Fantasy|'
>>>
>>> [item for item in s.split('|') if item.strip()]
['Action and Adventure', 'Drama', 'Science-Fiction', 'Fantasy']
>>>
If you'd rather have a tuple then:
>>> tuple(item for item in s.split('|') if item.strip())
('Action and Adventure', 'Drama', 'Science-Fiction', 'Fantasy')
>>>
13 Comments
Alin P.
Also note that you should (probably) not use tuples in your case because you want multiple single component items, not one item with variable number of components.
Manoj Govindan
@Alin: Didn't understand that. Care to explain?
Alin P.
I wanted to point out that it is not semantically correct to use tuples when you actually need lists.
Manoj Govindan
Not semantically correct? Not sure why you say that, for two reasons (1) The OP specifically asked for a tuple or a list. (2) unless you are planning to modify the sequence later, a tuple would do just as fine as a list.
FogleBird
Alin Purcaru's argument is the one supported by Guido. Tuples are like records. Lists are sequences of objects of the same type.
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You want str.split():
>>> s = '|Action and Adventure|Drama|Science-Fiction|Fantasy|'
>>> s.split('|')
['', 'Action and Adventure', 'Drama', 'Science-Fiction', 'Fantasy', '']
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If you want to just split your string at the | character you use:
myStr.split('|')
If you also want all zero-length element removed (like the ones from the ends) you:
def myFilter(el): return len(el) > 0
filter(myFilter, myStr.split('|'))
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shahjapan
Thanks won't work here ;-), Set this answer as your accepted answer" If so :)
Jack Kelly
[ x for x in myStr.split('|') if len(x) > 0 ] is much cleaner.Strip 'string'.strip('|')
>>> heading = '|Action and Adventure|Drama|Science-Fiction|Fantasy|'
>>> tuple(heading.strip('|').split('|'))
('Action and Adventure', 'Drama', 'Science-Fiction', 'Fantasy')
Slice 'string'[1:-1]
>>> heading = '|Action and Adventure|Drama|Science-Fiction|Fantasy|'
>>> tuple(heading[1:-1].split('|'))
('Action and Adventure', 'Drama', 'Science-Fiction', 'Fantasy')
For List remove the tuple() call.
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strip() gets rid of the leading and trailing chars, split() divvies up the remainder:
>>> s.strip('|').split('|')
['Action and Adventure', 'Drama', 'Science-Fiction', 'Fantasy']
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List
seq = '|Action and Adventure|Drama|Science-Fiction|Fantasy|'.split('|')
Tuple
seq = tuple(seq)
If you want to strip empty items, pass the output through filter(None, seq). If you assume outer | always, just slice with seq[1:-1].
