for the following split() function in Python:
hallway = "<--<--->->"
list_string = hallway.split()
print(list_string)
The output that I am getting is ["<--<--->->"] but my desired output is ["<","-","-","<","-","-","-",">","-",">"]
Can someone please explain why my code is not producing the desired output? And how can I product the desired output simply using split() ?
You're getting this result because you're splitting a string and the split() method will split a list into separate chars.
Try this:
hallway = "<--<--->->"
hallwayLIST = list(hallway)
print(listway)
OR:
Create the "hallway" variable as a list to begin with...
hallway = ['<','-','-','<','-','-','-','>','-','>']
The second way takes a lot longer to type and isn't as pretty. Also, I just saw that Andrej had the same idea for converting the str into a list and saving it as a separate var.
You can call list() on your string:
hallway = "<--<--->->"
list_string = list(hallway)
print(list_string)
Prints:
['<', '-', '-', '<', '-', '-', '-', '>', '-', '>']
you will get the same string, because
split() method splits a string into a list by a separator given to it as first paramter and since you don't specify the seperator, the default separator is any whitespace. and your string don't have whitespace so it return the string as it is.
so to get the desired output, try to convert it to a list like the answer of Andrej Kesely
splitsplits a string based on a delimiter string. By default the delimiter string it uses is a space. Since there are no spaces in your string, no delimters of any kind really,splitis stymied. "List-ifying" your string as Andrej shows in his answer is the right way to go in this case.