[Python-Dev] "funny".split("")

2002年3月12日 19:28:19 +0100

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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