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Python daily exercise 4: separate a string

#beginners #python #string

Question

  • Write a program to split a given string on hyphens and display each substring.

Given:

str1 = "Emma-is-a-data-scientist"
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Expected Output:

Displaying each substring Emma is a data scientist
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My attempt

  • don't know what to do, look at the hint and it ask me to use split method
  • After looking up the split syntax, my first try

Fail 

str1 = "Emma-is-a-data-scientist" new_str = str1.split() print("Displaying each substring") for word in new_str: print(word)
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  • First, I thought that the split method will return a list, i can just iterate over it. However the output is still the original list Emma-is-a-data-scientist.
  • Then I look to the syntax carefully, the split method is default to separate by whitespace and now there is no white space, so the separator needs to be "-".

Success 

str1 = "Emma-is-a-data-scientist" new_str = str1.split("-") print("Displaying each substring") for word in new_str: print(word)
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Exercise from Pynative

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