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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:09:50 +0200
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Ramchandra Apte wrote:
> (Much) more Pythonic solution:
> >>> filter(None,"|".split("|"))
>
> On 14 August 2012 15:14, Andreas Tawn <andreas.tawn@ubisoft.com 
> <mailto:andreas.tawn@ubisoft.com>> wrote:
>
>     > I have a question about the split function? surpose a = "|",and
>     when I use a.split("|") , I got the list
>     > ['"",""] ,but I want to get the empty list,what should I do ?
>
>     Something like...
>
>     >>> [x for x in "|".split("|") if x]
>     []
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Drea
>     --
>     http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
>
A pythonic answer would be bottom-posted :p

JM


PS : pylint raises a low warning about *filter* being non pythonic, 
http://pylint-messages.wikidot.com/messages:w0141
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