need help of RE

[cheng]

hi all
a string like

"(word1 & (Word2|woRd3))"

how can i use the re to split it to

['word1', 'word2', 'word3']

[Elliot Temple]

On May 29, 2005, at 12:39 AM, cheng wrote:

hi all
a string like

"(word1 & (Word2|woRd3))"

how can i use the re to split it to

['word1', 'word2', 'word3']

Could you be more exact about what the string is like? Does it
literally contain the characters '&' and '|' ? If so, just split at
them.

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[cheng]

im sorry, my engilsh is not vell well,

the string not only contain '&' and '|' and it can be anyting

i just want to split out the "whole word" inside the string

[cheng]

i try

query = query.lower()
print re.split(r'\W+',theString)

the reslut is :
['', 'word1', 'word2', 'word3', '']

how can i fix the statment to get

['word1', 'word2', 'word3']

[cheng]

i try

theString= theString.lower()
print re.split(r'\W+',theString)

the reslut is :
['', 'word1', 'word2', 'word3', '']

how can i fix the statment to get

['word1', 'word2', 'word3']

[Elliot Temple]

On May 29, 2005, at 12:57 AM, cheng wrote:

im sorry, my engilsh is not vell well,

the string not only contain '&' and '|' and it can be anyting

i just want to split out the "whole word" inside the string

If the string could be anything, how do you know where the words are?

If it's whitespace that separates words, try out str.split()

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[tiissa]

cheng wrote:

im sorry, my engilsh is not vell well,
That's alright, you could have been french. ;)
the string not only contain '&' and '|' and it can be anyting

i just want to split out the "whole word" inside the string

Look at the example for split function of re module in the doc [1].

In short:

import re
s="(word1 & (Word2|woRd3))"
re.split("\W+",s) ['', 'word1', 'Word2', 'woRd3', ''] [w.lower() for w in re.split("\W+",s) if w != ''] ['word1', 'word2', 'word3']

[1]http://python.org/doc/lib/node114.html

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 29 May 2005 at 07:39 GMT, cheng wrote:

hi all
a string like

"(word1 & (Word2|woRd3))"

how can i use the re to split it to

['word1', 'word2', 'word3']

This splits the string on one or more occurrences of any character
that is not alphanumeric:

import re
str = "(word1 & (Word2|woRd3))"
s = re.sub("[^a-zA-Z0-9]+"," ",str).split()

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[cheng]

thx for help..i got it now :)

[vincent wehren]

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| hi all
| a string like
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| "(word1 & (Word2|woRd3))"
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| how can i use the re to split it to
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| ['word1', 'word2', 'word3']
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import re
s = "(word1 & (Word2|woRd3)"
parts = re.split('\W+', s)
print [p for p in parts if p]

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[John Machin]

cheng wrote:

hi all
a string like

"(word1 & (Word2|woRd3))"

how can i use the re to split it to

['word1', 'word2', 'word3']

OK, so you know about the re module.

Look in the manual: there's a module-level function called
"split", with an example similar to yours. Did you try that?
Let's do it now:

import re
text = "(word1 & (Word2|woRd3))".lower() # you seem to want downshifting ... re.split(r"\W+", text) ['', 'word1', 'word2', 'word3', '']
Hmmm ... near, but not exactly what you want. We need to throw away
those empty strings, which will appear if you have non-word characters
at the ends of your text.

Two ways of doing that:
filter(None, re.split(r"\W+", text)) ['word1', 'word2', 'word3']

or
[x for x in re.split(r"\W+", text) if x]

['word1', 'word2', 'word3']

Forget about "filter". Read about "list comprehensions" and "generator
expressions" -- they are more general and powerful.

Cheers,
John

[Steven Bethard]

John Machin wrote:

>>> import re
>>> text = "(word1 & (Word2|woRd3))".lower() # you seem to want downshifting ... >>> re.split(r"\W+", text) ['', 'word1', 'word2', 'word3', ''] >>>

Hmmm ... near, but not exactly what you want. We need to throw away
those empty strings, which will appear if you have non-word characters
at the ends of your text.

You can also avoid the empty strings at the end by using re.findall with
\w instead of re.split with \W:

py> import re
py> text = "(word1 & (Word2|woRd3))".lower()
py> re.findall(r"\w+", text)
['word1', 'word2', 'word3']

STeVe