How to split values in Python at specific character?

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Hi,

I am reading values from serial port, i need to put a line break on a specific character. How to achieve this.

What I have tried:

I have tried in displaying the data in terminal with timestamp. I need to split the data to next line and so on a specific set of character.

Posted 16-Nov-17 19:20pm

venkat28vk

Updated 16-Nov-17 22:29pm

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2017-11-16T22:29:00

Solution 1

4. Built-in Types — Python 3.6.3 documentation[^]

Posted 16-Nov-17 22:29pm

Richard MacCutchan

TheLostJedi · Answer 2 · 2017-11-22T01:14:00

Solution 2

If the specific character is constant, you could save the data into a string and use the split method by specifying this character as the delimiter.
For example:

Python

>>data = "FF43//A64B//FFFF"
>>split_data = list(data.split("//"))


>>['FF43','A648','FFFF']

Posted 22-Nov-17 1:14am

TheLostJedi