Split on more than one space?

Question

I have a program that needs to split lines that are of the format:

IDNumber      Firstname Lastname    GPA      Credits

but I want to keep

Answer 1

If you want to split by any whitespace, you can use str.split:

mystr.split()

# ['IDNumber', 'Firstname', 'Lastname', 'GPA', 'Credits']

For two or more spaces:

list(filter(None, mystr.split('  ')))

# ['IDNumber', 'Firstname Lastname', 'GPA', 'Credits']

Answer 2

Use regex to split on two or more spaces:

>>> re.split(r" {2,}", s)
['IDNumber', 'Firstname Lastname', 'GPA', 'Credits']

If you want to split on two or more white-space characters generally, then use:

re.split(r"\s{2,}", s)

e.g.:

>>> s = "hello, world\t\tgoodbye cruel world"
>>> print(s)
hello, world        goodbye cruel world
>>> re.split(r"\s{2,}", s)
['hello, world', 'goodbye cruel world']