Split string at a space or "," in python

[ff_Floris]

How can I split a string at a space or at a comma? I want it to do something like this: list=input.split(" " or ",")

[Slottr]

You would use regex, like this:

 

import re
mystring = input()
re.split(r'[\s,]+', mystring)

 

[Vicarian]

Bear in mind that the \s in RegEx captures more than just spaces.  It also gets new lines (\n), carriage returns (\r), vertical whitespace (\v), form feed (\f), and tabs (\t).  You can put a space inside the square brackets (denotes a set of characters to accept) to only accept a space or a comma.  The + after the square brackets means that it will accept one or many of those characters, so if your string has multiple spaces, it'll result in the array elements having no spaces or commas, and will also prevent empty or null elements from making their way into the array.  A site I use often when I need to check RegEx strings is https://www.regex101.com