Although I've come across posts that seem to answer this, nothing I've tried from them have worked.
What I want to do is to turn a list like this:
["this is an\nexample" , "sentence\n\x0c"]
to this:
["this", "is", "an", "example", "sentence"]
I'm sure I'm massively overcomplicating this, and usually searching through forums for similar problems works, but for some reason nothing I've come across has been the solution.
You can try this code. Completely built-in itertools, there are a lot of other functions there that might be useful to you.
from itertools import chain
s = ["this is an\nexample" , "sentence\n\x0c"]
s = [i.split() for i in s]
print(list(chain(*s)))
To make it even shorter like this. But I think the first one is better cause it's more eyes friendly.
from itertools import chain
s = ["this is an\nexample" , "sentence\n\x0c"]
print(list(chain(*[i.split() for i in s])))
Output:
['this', 'is', 'an', 'example', 'sentence']
Simply do this (map returns you iterator which you directly sum with empty list to return the desired output in one go):
a = ["this is an\nexample" , "sentence\n\x0c"]
a = sum(map(str.split, a), [])
gives
['this', 'is', 'an', 'example', 'sentence']
It should be as simple as using a string's split method.
l = ["this is an\nexample" , "sentence\n\x0c"]
l2 = []
for i in l:
l2 += (i.split())
