Question

I have a huge text file, each line seems like this:

Some sort of general menu^a_sub_menu_title^^pagNumber

Notice that the first “general menu” has white spaces, the second part (a subtitle) each word is separate with “_” character and finally a number (a pag number). I want to split each line in 3 (obvious) parts, because I want to create some sort of directory in python.

I was trying with re module, but as the caret character has a strong meaning in such module, I couldn’t figure it out how to do it.

Could someone please help me????

Answer 1

>>> "Some sort of general menu^a_sub_menu_title^^pagNumber".split("^")
['Some sort of general menu', 'a_sub_menu_title', '', 'pagNumber']