How do you incorporate a regular expression into the Python string.split method? Here is some sample code:
ip = '192.168.0.1:8080'
tokens = ip.split('[.|:]')
print tokens
This for some reason generates ['192.168.0.1:8080']. Can someone point out what I’m missing? I’ve tried escaping characters and using double quotes, but nothing seems to change anything.
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You need to use re.split if you want to split a string according to a regex pattern.
tokens = re.split(r'[.:]', ip)
Inside a character class | matches a literal | symbol and note that [.:] matches a dot or colon (| won’t do the orring here).
So you need to remove | from the character class or otherwise it would do splitting according to the pipe character also.
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Use string.split along with list_comprehension.
>>> ip = '192.168.0.1:8080'
>>> [j for i in ip.split(':') for j in i.split('.')]
['192', '168', '0', '1', '8080']
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