Given the string:
str = 'Led Zeppelin — Blackdog'
how do I split it at —, ending up with:
['Led Zeppelin', 'Blackdog']
but — is not an hyphen; it is encoded as u'\u2014'
how do I do it?
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1`str.split(u'—')` or `str.split(u'\u2014')`? – alvas Feb 19 '17 at 03:36
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You can just split on explicitly what you've provided if you want it to be clear that it is not a hyphen, surrounded by a whitespace character if that is standard-included with the character. Also, don't shadow built-ins with str as a variable name.
>>> s = 'Led Zeppelin — Blackdog'
>>> s.split(u' \u2014 ')
['Led Zeppelin', 'Blackdog']
>>> s.split(' — ') # perhaps less explicit
['Led Zeppelin', 'Blackdog']
