[python] Splitting a string

Question

Hi, I am bit new to python.
I want to split a string something like this:

x='print "Thank you"'
#Some code

The output should be:
['print', '"Thank you"']

as you can see it did not split Thank you inside " "
How can I do that??
And Thanks is advance.

Answer 1

#Similar to Anna's solution:
import re

x = 'hello "world hello" world "hello" "world" hello'
ptrn = re.compile(r'\s*(".*?")\s*')

print(list(filter(None, ptrn.split(x))))

Answer 2

I would use regular expressions

https://code.sololearn.com/cSlTeAxq0sqB/?ref=app

(if the string is more complex and you want to split strings like 'test "test test" test test "test"', you'll need a more complex regex pattern)

Answer 3

Thanks for you all!!!

Answer 4

There are a few built-in ways as well.

1.) If you know beforehand that you want to split only at the first whitespace, you can write:

'1 2 3'.split(maxsplit=1)

You will then get only one cut -> two items: ['1', '2 3']

2.) If you have control over how the string looks, you can insert a special split-letter and split by that. I once did that when I wanted to transform nutritional data for a txt-file and back to list-format. I formatted like this:

'apple: 50 1 10 0.1'

And when I had to split that, I could go by the colon, writing:

mytext.split(':')

That got me ['apple', '50 1 10 0.1'].

Answer 5

Mehran sanea, in Python you can also just use a different set of quotes on the outside, as the OP already had done in his given example.

This is not what the question was about.

Answer 6

do u not use ("+")=("+")!

Answer 7

use split there