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Split string on n or more whitespaces

I have a string like that:

sentence = 'This is   a  nice    day'

I want to have the following output:

output = ['This is', 'a  nice',  'day']

In this case, I split the string on n=3 or more whitespaces and this is why it is split like it is shown above.

How can I efficiently do this for any n?

Solution

  • You may try using Python's regex split:

    sentence = 'This is   a  nice day'
output = re.split(r'\s{3,}', sentence)
print(output)

['This is', 'a  nice day']

    To handle this for an actual variable n, we can try:

    n = 3
pattern = r'\s{' + str(n) + ',}'
output = re.split(pattern, sentence)
print(output)

['This is', 'a  nice day']