Question

I’m trying to split a string looking like this in Python using re.split:

#NAME="Foo" NAME2="foobar" NAME3="BAR BAR"
comp = "NAME=\"Foo\" NAME2=\"FOO BAR\" NAME3=\"BAR BAR\""

This is how my split-function including regex looks like:

re.split('(\s\w+\=\".*?\")', comp)

The result looks like this:

['NAME="Foo"', 'NAME2="foobar"', '', 'NAME3="BAR BAR"', '']

While this is correct I’d like to get rid of all empty elements.

Answer 1

Is this what you’re looking for:

In [10]: re.findall(r'\w+=".*?"', comp)
Out[10]: ['NAME="Foo"', 'NAME2="FOO BAR"', 'NAME3="BAR BAR"']

?

It doesn’t sound like re.split() is the right tool for the job.