Inputting a list of strings Python [duplicate]

Question

I have modified a Python code to create a a simple string similarity.

However, I'm trying to do is a user input, where I want the second user input (words) to contain a list of words so that I can compare between words.

    '''
Input the English words in w1, and
the translated Malay words in the list
'''
w1 = raw_input("Enter the English word: ")
words = raw_input("Enter all the Malay words: ")
## The bits im not sure what to code
wordslist = list(words)

for w2 in wordslist:
    print(w1 + ' --- ' + w2)
    print(string_similarity(w1, w2))
    print

When I entered, it seems to make a string similarity with the whole 'w1' input, with all single characters in 'words' input. All I want is for example

w1 = United Kingdom words = United Kingdom, United Kingdoms, United States, Kingdmo.

Then it does a measure where

United Kingdom --- United Kingdom
United Kingdom --- United Kingdoms
United Kingdom --- United Sates
United Kingdom --- Kingdmo

and so on.

Thanks for your help!

Ashwini Chaudhary · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-08 01:49:33Z

1

You could use str.split to get a list of words:

>>> strs = "United Kingdom, United Kingdoms, United States, Kingdmo"
>>> strs.split(",")
['United Kingdom', ' United Kingdoms', ' United States', ' Kingdmo']

help on str.split:

>>> str.split?
Namespace:  Python builtin
Docstring:
S.split([sep [,maxsplit]]) -> list of strings

Return a list of the words in the string S, using sep as the
delimiter string.  If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit
splits are done. If sep is not specified or is None, any
whitespace string is a separator and empty strings are removed
from the result.

answered May 8, 2013 at 1:49

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2 Comments

bn60 Over a year ago

Sorry for asking a silly question, but how do I attain this from a user input? I've tried using str.split(",") under my user input, it still process the strings individually (every character). Thanks!

Ashwini Chaudhary Over a year ago

@user1433571 The words entered by user must be separated by commas(similar to what you posted in question). and then use words = words.split(",").

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