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Splitting a string in Python
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We can split a string by delimiter in Python using the str.split(~) method. We can alternatively use str.splitlines(~) to split by line breaks.
Examples
Basic
To split a string using whitespace as the delimiter:
s ='this is a sentence'
['this', 'is', 'a', 'sentence']
The default separator is whitespace hence the string is split into four parts and returned as elements of a list.
To split using a delimiter other than whitespace:
s ='this,is,a,sentence'
['this', 'is', 'a', 'sentence']
Split by line break
Unix OS (including Mac) uses \n (LF) while Windows OS uses \r\n (CR + LF) for line breaks. As str.split(~) only takes on a single sep argument, it is recommended to use str.splitlines(~) to split by line break:
s = 'hi\nthis\r\nis \nskytowner'
['hi', 'this', 'is ', 'skytowner']
Published by Arthur Yanagisawa
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