I can get split by underscore working, but not with 2 delimiters (in this case underscore and whitespace).
Example:
mystring = Tom Dough__________8.5 7.5 9.5
What i want :
['Tom', 'Dough', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '8.5', '7.5', '9.5']
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Jérôme Teisseire
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You want the split function in the re package:
>>> import re
>>> mystring = "Tom Dough__________8.5 7.5 9.5"
>>> re.split(' |_', mystring)
['Tom', 'Dough', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '', '8.5', '7.5', '9.5']
grahamlyons
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what i forgot to mention was that i have multiple of these lines, i used [i.split('_') for i in students] to split underscores where students is the list containing multiple lines of students and their grades. so your answer will give me an error – RLmaster Nov 15 '18 at 21:27
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Could you give a full example of your data in that case? – grahamlyons Nov 16 '18 at 11:01
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I already found my answer. Thank you. – RLmaster Nov 17 '18 at 17:15
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Your answer was very useful for me, thank you grahamlyons – Windy71 Aug 19 '21 at 09:21