howto split string with both comma and semicolon delimiters

[dmitrey]

hi all,
howto split string with both comma and semicolon delimiters?

i.e. (for example) get ['a','b','c'] from string "a,b;c"

I have tried s.split(',;') but it don't work
Thx, D.

[Gary Herron]

dmitrey wrote:

hi all,
howto split string with both comma and semicolon delimiters?

i.e. (for example) get ['a','b','c'] from string "a,b;c"

I have tried s.split(',;') but it don't work
Thx, D.
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The regular expression module has a split function that does what you
want.

>>import re
r =',|;' # or this also works: '[,;]'
s = "a,b;c"
re.split(r,s)

['a', 'b', 'c']
Gary Herron

[Daniel Fetchinson]

howto split string with both comma and semicolon delimiters?

>
i.e. (for example) get ['a','b','c'] from string "a,b;c"

I have tried s.split(',;') but it don't work

A very pedestrian solution would be:

def multisplit( s, seps ):

words = [ ]
word = ''
for char in s:
if char in seps:
if word:
words.append( word )
word = ''
else:
word += char

if word:
words.append( word )

return words
Cheers,
Daniel
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[bvdp]

dmitrey wrote:

hi all,
howto split string with both comma and semicolon delimiters?

i.e. (for example) get ['a','b','c'] from string "a,b;c"

I have tried s.split(',;') but it don't work
Thx, D.

Howabout:

s = s.replace(";", ",")
s = s.split(",")

[MRAB]

On Jun 12, 8:06 pm, bvdp <[e-mail]:

dmitrey wrote:

hi all,
howto split string with both comma and semicolon delimiters?

i.e. (for example) get ['a','b','c'] from string "a,b;c"

I have tried s.split(',;') but it don't work
Thx, D.

Howabout:

s = s.replace(";", ",")
s = s.split(",")

I've wondered in the past whether there would be sufficient need for
things like s.split((',', ';')) and s.partition((',', ';')).