Question

I need to split the string based on whitespaces:

mystring = ['1      SLES11 SP1 64bit            [datastore1] SLES11 SP1 64bit/SLES11 SP1 64bit.vmx   sles11_64Guest          vmx-08  ']
#Removes white spaces
mystring.strip()

I want to achieve, similar to awk output :

# awk '{print $1, $2}' mystring
1 SLES11 SP1 64bit

I need to push the output similar to awk to array and read data.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

So you want to split on two or more whitespace characters?

>>> mystring = ['1      SLES11 SP1 64bit            [datastore1] SLES11 SP1 64bit/SLES11 SP1 64bit.vmx   sles11_64Guest          vmx-08  ']
>>> import re
>>> re.split(r"\s{2,}", mystring[0].strip())
['1', 'SLES11 SP1 64bit', '[datastore1] SLES11 SP1 64bit/SLES11 SP1 64bit.vmx',
'sles11_64Guest', 'vmx-08']