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Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile
Date 2012-12-04 17:21 -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

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Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 05:57 -0800
  Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-04 14:23 +0000
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 06:47 -0800
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-04 15:17 +0000
  Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 15:31 +0100
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 07:24 -0800
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 22:08 +0100
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 07:24 -0800
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-04 18:26 +0000
  Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Alexander Blinne <news@blinne.net> - 2012-12-04 18:18 +0100
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile DJC <djc@news.invalid> - 2012-12-04 18:28 +0000
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Alexander Blinne <news@blinne.net> - 2012-12-04 19:48 +0100
        Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 12:37 -0700
          Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Alexander Blinne <news@blinne.net> - 2012-12-04 21:33 +0100
          Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-04 21:13 +0000
        Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-12-04 20:17 +0000
  Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-12-04 15:44 -0500
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 17:17 -0800
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-12-06 00:45 +1100
        Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-05 14:34 +0000
          Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 08:33 -0700
            Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-05 16:11 +0000
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-12-05 15:32 +0000
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 09:16 -0700
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-12-05 17:57 +0000
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 17:17 -0800
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-05 13:29 +0000
        Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 09:04 -0800
          Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-12-05 17:57 +0000
          Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-05 18:16 +0000
            Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 11:01 -0800
              Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-05 20:13 +0000
              Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 22:36 +0100
                Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-06 13:06 +0000
                Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-12-06 15:12 +0100
          Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Alexander Blinne <news@blinne.net> - 2012-12-06 14:40 +0100
  Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-12-04 17:21 -0500
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