Question

If I have a string thats 'asdf foo\nHi\nBar thing', I want it to split the string, so the output is ['asdf', 'foo', 'hi', 'bar', thing']. Thats essentially x.split(' ') and x.split('\n'). How can I do this efficiently? I want it to be about one line long, instead of having a for loop to split again…

Answer 1

Omit the parameter to split(): x.split() will split on both, spaces and newline characters (and also tabs).

Example:

>>> x = 'asdf foo\nHi\nBar thing'
>>> x.split()
['asdf', 'foo', 'Hi', 'Bar', 'thing']