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carlware
carlware

Reputation: 43

python split string number in digits

Hi I would like to split the following string "1234" in ['1', '2', '3', '4'] in python.

My current approach is using re module

import re
re.compile('(\d)').split("1234")
['', '1', '', '2', '', '3', '', '4', '']

But i get some extra empty strings. I am not an expert in regular expressions, what could be a proper regular expression in python to accomplish my task?

Please give me some advices.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3811

Answers (2)

alvas
alvas

Reputation: 122142

Strings are by default character lists:

>>> nums = "1234"
>>> for i in nums:
...     print i
... 
1
2
3
4
>>> nums[:-1]
'123'

Upvotes: 0

thefourtheye
thefourtheye

Reputation: 239523

Simply use list function, like this

>>> list("1234")
['1', '2', '3', '4']

The list function iterates the string, and creates a new list with all the characters in it.

Upvotes: 6

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