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 …

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 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() …

return re.split(regex_pattern, string, maxsplit) If you're going to split often using the same delimiters, compile your regular expression beforehand like described and use …

Jan 15, 2018 · "How to split a column" has different answers depending on whether the column is string, list, or something else, also what format (e.g. 'formatted string' like an address, for …

I have some python code that splits on comma, but doesn't strip the whitespace:

Dec 15, 2009 · Suppose I have an input integer 12345. How can I split it into a list like [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]?

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 …

Jun 15, 2012 · 5 You can use str.split([sep[, maxsplit]]) Return a list of the words in the string, using sep as the delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit splits are done (thus, the …

I am currently writing a Python script to handle some logs and reformat certain parts. Part of the script makes use of the following code (as an example): …