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Santosh M
Santosh M

Reputation: 115

Python, Split a string by whitespaces, similar to awk

I need to split the string based on whitespaces:

mystring = ['1      SLES11 SP1 64bit            [datastore1] SLES11 SP1 64bit/SLES11 SP1 64bit.vmx   sles11_64Guest          vmx-08  ']
#Removes white spaces
mystring.strip()

I want to achieve, similar to awk output :

# awk '{print $1, $2}' mystring
1 SLES11 SP1 64bit

I need to push the output similar to awk to array and read data.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3319

Answers (2)

Reinstate Monica
Reinstate Monica

Reputation: 4723

Without regular expressions:

>>> mystring = '1      SLES11 SP1 64bit            [datastore1] SLES11 SP1 64bit/SLES11 SP1 64bit.vmx   sles11_64Guest          vmx-08  '
>>> a, dummy, c = mystring.partition("  ")
>>> print(a, c.lstrip().partition("  ")[0])
1 SLES11 SP1 64bit

Upvotes: 0

Tim Pietzcker
Tim Pietzcker

Reputation: 336158

So you want to split on two or more whitespace characters?

>>> mystring = ['1      SLES11 SP1 64bit            [datastore1] SLES11 SP1 64bit/SLES11 SP1 64bit.vmx   sles11_64Guest          vmx-08  ']
>>> import re
>>> re.split(r"\s{2,}", mystring[0].strip())
['1', 'SLES11 SP1 64bit', '[datastore1] SLES11 SP1 64bit/SLES11 SP1 64bit.vmx',
'sles11_64Guest', 'vmx-08']

Upvotes: 3

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