Parsing GPS receiver output via regex in Python

Question

I have a friend who is finishing up his masters degree in aerospace engineering. For his final project, he is on a small team tasked with writing a program for tracking weat

Answer 1

It's simpler to use split than a regex.

>>> line="$GPRMC,092204.999,4250.5589,S,14718.5084,E,1,12,24.4,89.6,M,,,0000*1F "
>>> line.split(',')
['$GPRMC', '092204.999', '4250.5589', 'S', '14718.5084', 'E', '1', '12', '24.4', '89.6', 'M', '', '', '0000*1F ']
>>>