Split and strip

From time to time you may want to split a string by a delimiting character like ,, but the whitespace is all over the place.

>>> some_string = '0.1,   0.2,0.3, 0.4,  0.5'
>>> some_string.split(',')
['0.1', '   0.2', '0.3', ' 0.4', '  0.5']
>>> some_string.split(', ')
['0.1', '  0.2,0.3', '0.4', ' 0.5']

So a pure splitting operation does not really do the trick. Write a function that improves this behavior for this case, so that you can use it as follows:

>>> strip_and_split(some_string, ',')  
['0.1', '0.2', '0.3', '0.4', '0.5']

split_and_strip(string, delimiter)

Return a list of stripped strings after splitting string by delimiter.

Parameters:

• string (str) – The string to split and strip.
• delimiter (str) – The string to split by.

Returns:

The list of strings that are stripped after splitting by delimiter.

Return type:

list[str]

Start by downloading the exercise template and editing this file. You can run tests via

$ python split_and_strip.py test

to check whether you got a correct solution. You can also take a look at one possible solution.