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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:21:33 -0500
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On 12/4/2012 3:44 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:

> If the original string has no excess whitespace, description is what
> remains of s after product prefix is omitted. (Py 3 code)
>
> from itertools import takewhile
> def allcaps(word): return word == word.upper()
>
> def split_product_itertools(s):
>      product = ' '.join(takewhile(allcaps, s.split()))
>      return product, s[len(product)+1:]
>
> print(split_product_itertools("CAPSICUM RED fresh from QLD"))
>  >>>
> ('CAPSICUM RED', 'fresh from QLD')
>
> Without that assumption, the same idea applies to the split list.
>
> def split_product_itertools(s):
>      words = s.split()
>      product = list(takewhile(allcaps, words))
>      return ' '.join(product), ' '.join(words[len(product):])

Because these slice rather than index, either works trivially on an 
empty description.

print(split_product_itertools("CAPSICUM RED"))
 >>>
('CAPSICUM RED', '')



-- 
Terry Jan Reedy