Question

I would like to split a string only where there are at least two or more whitespaces.

For example

str = '10DEUTSCH        GGS Neue Heide 25-27     Wahn-Heide   -1      -1'
print(str.split())

Results:

['10DEUTSCH', 'GGS', 'Neue', 'Heide', '25-27', 'Wahn-Heide', '-1', '-1']

I would like it to look like this:

['10DEUTSCH', 'GGS Neue Heide 25-27', 'Wahn-Heide', '-1', '-1']

Answer 1

>>> import re    
>>> text = '10DEUTSCH        GGS Neue Heide 25-27     Wahn-Heide   -1      -1'
>>> re.split(r'\s{2,}', text)
['10DEUTSCH', 'GGS Neue Heide 25-27', 'Wahn-Heide', '-1', '-1']

Where

• \s matches any whitespace character, like \t\n\r\f\v and more
• {2,} is a repetition, meaning "2 or more"