Python: divide the string by 'and -

Question

How to split a line by an apostrophe 'and -?

For example, given string = "pete - he a boy"

Answer 1

You can use the decomposition function of the regular expression module:

re.split("['-]", "pete - he a boy")

Answer 2

string = "pete - he a boy"
result = string.replace("'", "-").split("-")
print result

['pete ', ' he',  a boy']

Answer 3

, :

string.replace("-", "'").split("'")

Answer 4

. split ( ) - , @Cédric Julien fooobar.com/questions/1073506/...)

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l = [x.split("'") for x in "pete - he a boy".split('-')]

print ( [item for m in l for item in m ] )

['pete ', ' he',  a boy']

Answer 5

>>> import re
>>> string = "pete - he a boy"
>>> re.split('[\'\-]', string)
['pete ', ' he',  a boy']

, :)

Answer 6

import re
string = "pete - he a boy"
print re.findall("[^'-]+",string)

['pete ', ' he',  a boy']

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, :

import re
string = "pete - he a boy"
print re.findall("[^'-]+",string)
print re.findall("(?! )[^'-]+(?<! )",string)

['pete', 'he',  a boy']