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Reputation: 1395

Python regex parsing and putting into a multidimensional list

I know that regex is the way to go here but I am woeful at writing regex expressions. I have a file where each line looks like this: "defenders\t2\n" and I want to remove the \t and the \n and put the word "defenders" into the [0] of my multidimensional list and put the number "2" in the [1] of my list. Is there an easy regex way to do this in python?

import re

d = []
with open("somefile.txt") as f:
    for line in f:
       word = re.search()
       rank = re.search()
       d.append([word][rank])

This is what I am trying but I do not know how to make it work. Thanks for the help.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 105

Answers (1)

Ashwini Chaudhary
Ashwini Chaudhary

Reputation: 250961

Just use str.split:

>>> "defenders\t2\n".split()
['defenders', '2']

To get a list using regex, you need to use re.findall:

>>> import re
>>> re.findall(r'\S+', "defenders\t2\n")
['defenders', '2']

Upvotes: 1

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