My example will give false positive if there is a space before a comma. Or anything else by the conventions in the original string. I tried to keep it as simple as I could. If you want to catch a wider range of values you can use *simple* regular expression to catch as much spaces as you want. On Oct 1, 2015 3:48 PM, "Tim Chase" <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote: > On 2015年10月01日 01:48, gal kauffman wrote: > > items = s.replace(' (', '(').replace(', ',',').split() >> s = "name1 (1)" >> Your suggestion doesn't catch cases where more than one space can > occur before the paren. >> -tkc >>>> -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20151001/8c24a629/attachment.html>