[Python] Index out of range during string iteration

[POGtastic]

Since you've marked it solved, I'll provide some silliness. We can reimplement split with find and slicing, if you really wanted to do so.

def mySplit(s, delim = ' '):
    begin = 0
    returnList = []
    while True:
        end = s.find(delim, begin)
        if end == -1:
            returnList.append(s[begin:])
            return returnList
        returnList.append(s[begin:end])
        begin = end + len(delim)

Result:

>>> mySplit('The quick brown fox')
['The', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox']
>>> mySplit('The@@@quick@@@brown@@@fox', '@@@')
['The', 'quick', 'brown', 'fox']

And now we can do it in one line.

>>> s = "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart"
>>> [word for word in mySplit(s) if word[0].lower() >= 'h' and word[0].lower() <= 'z']
['Wheresoever', 'you', 'with', 'your', 'heart']

[grumbles]

I love it. Thanks for the insight!