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.

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?.

Oct 21, 2011 · #splits string according to delimeters ''' Let's make a function that can split a string into list according the given delimeters. example data: cat;dog:greff,snake/ example …

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.

Feb 28, 2012 · # Use list comprehension and slicing to split the string into groups of `n` characters. return [s[i:i + n] for i in range(0, len(s), n)] Using the re (regex) Module: Python’s re …

This doesn't work well for your example string, but works nicely for a comma-space separated list. For your example string, you can combine the re.split power to split on regex patterns to get a …

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 …

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 RegexObject.split.

What's the best way to split a string into fixed length chunks and work with them in Python? Asked 12 years, 2 months ago Modified 1 year ago Viewed 95k times

Oct 24, 2013 · 9 No need to worry, because python provide split () function to change string into a list.