Brian Quinlan wrote:
> Christian wrote:
>
>>I'm just translating the Python Pocked Reference the
>>second time, and I stumbled over this:
>>
>> "funny".split("")
>>
>>gives a ValueError: empty separator.
>>
>>Why this?
>>I would expect
>>
>> ['f','u','n','n','y']
>>
>
> Why wouldn't you expect this:
> ['', 'f', 'u', 'n', 'n', 'y', '']
>
> As with:
>
>>>>' f u n n y '.split(' ')
>>>>
> ['', 'f', 'u', 'n', 'n', 'y', '']
Good example.
I didn't think of this and expected it were obvious to
use the maximum string of single characters in this
case. But see my other post, I already accepted
list("funny") as the cleaner way.
regards - chris
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