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Matt
Matt

Reputation: 3557

Split lines by a character or whitespace python

I'm trying to split the lines in the data file I'm playing with. This was originally someone else's code, just trying to 'fix it'. They have it splitting on a semi-colon, but I realized that they actually need it to split on excess whitespace as well. I've singled my problem out to the expression in line 28. I was trying some suggestions from other users, but when I use a regex command I get an invalid literal for int() warning. This is confusing because it works if I don't use the regex. Any suggestions? Thanks.

EDIT: Edited for full code link.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 549

Answers (1)

jamylak
jamylak

Reputation: 133544

No, .split with no arguments is the only form that splits on any whitespace.

Use a regex like this:

re.split(r'[\s;]+', text)

Upvotes: 5

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