To split on whitespace, see How do I split a string into a list of words?. To extract everything before the first delimiter, see Splitting on first occurrence. To extract everything before the last …

Dec 4, 2016 · For example \n is a newline character inside a python string which will lose its meaning in a raw string and will simply mean backslash followed by n. string.split() string.split() …

To split on other delimiters, see Split a string by a delimiter in python. To split into individual characters, see How do I split a string into a list of characters?.

Dec 13, 2022 · The difference between split and rsplit is pronounced only if the maxsplit parameter is given. In this case the function split returns at most maxsplit splits from the left …

In Python, strings are already arrays of characters for all purposes except replacement. You can slice them, reference or look up items by index, etc.

Using split() will be the most Pythonic way of splitting on a string. It's also useful to remember that if you use split() on a string that does not have a whitespace then that string will be returned to …

Using split creates very confusing bugs when sharing files across operating systems. \n in Python represents a Unix line-break (ASCII decimal code 10), independently of the OS where you run it.

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Great. If you want alternating tokens and separators, as you usually do, it would of course be better to use \W+. The algorithm behind split also seems to indicate whether your list …

Well thanks anyway, user. To be fair though I specifically asked for split and then strip () and strip removes leading and trailing whitespace and doesn't touch anything in between. A slight …