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pythonstringlistsplittoken
Auxy 12
Auxy 12

Reputation: 1

How to return a list of tokens using string as an argument

I want to create a Python program to with function that gives token('Hello, World!') == ['hello', 'world'], but my result gives ['hello,', 'world']. What is going on?

import string
def token(text):
    list=[]
    text = text.lower()
    new_string = text.split()
    for x in new_string: 
        list.append(x)
        
  
return list

token('Hello, World!')

Upvotes: 0

Views: 948

Answers (3)

Alex B
Alex B

Reputation: 35

I think what you are trying to do is have text.split(','), so that way you split the text wrt ','. Also, you may want to indent the last line, else it will not be part of your function. Here is what I did:

import string
def token(text):
    list=[]
    text = text.lower()
    new_string = text.split()
    for x in new_string: 
        list.append(x)
        
  
    return list
    
print(token('Hello,World!'))  # ['hello,world!']

Upvotes: 0

adir abargil
adir abargil

Reputation: 5745

it looks like you had issue with you return statement indentation, but i can give you advice in a better way using list comprenesion, also its not a good practice to use the saved keyword list:

def token(text):
    return [x.strip() for x in text.lower().split(',')]

print(token("yOu, wElcome")) #==> ['you', 'welcome']

Upvotes: 1

dspr
dspr

Reputation: 2423

Try this instead :

def token(text):
    list=[]
    text = text.lower()
    new_string = text.split(',')
    for x in new_string: 
        list.append(x.strip())
    return list

print(token("Hello, World!")) #==> ['hello', 'world!']

Upvotes: 1

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