[split] help with While method

[peterd1965]

It appears I'm taking the same class as "brawdhampshire".
We don't know ".join" yet.
"brawdhampshire" I believe they are asking us to loop through the string and parse out each word.
Since we don't know ".join" wink, wink. My thought is we need to go through the string and find instances of the space (" "). The spaces will become our markers and we need to grab word between the spaces.

Below is my overly verbose code for purpose of explaining:

#start program here
quote = "they stumble who run fast"

start_of_word = 0
space_index = quote.find(" ")
while space_index != -1:
    # code to print word (index slice start:space_index)
    print("First line of the while, the space_index = ", space_index)
    print("Lets get the word between index ",start_of_word, "and" ,space_index )
    
    print("Here is the word :" , quote[start_of_word:space_index])
    print ("\n")

    start_of_word = space_index +1
    print("Start now = :", start_of_word)
    
    space_index = quote.find(" ", start_of_word)
    print("Last line of while, space index now = ", space_index)
    start_of_word = space_index +1
    print("Start now = :", start_of_word)
    
    space_index = quote.find(" ", start_of_word)
    print("Last line of while, space index now = ", space_index)

This will output:

Output:
First line of the while, the space_index =  4
Lets get the word between index  0 and 4
Here is the word : they


Start now = : 5
Last line of while, space index now =  12
First line of the while, the space_index =  12
Lets get the word between index  5 and 12
Here is the word : stumble


Start now = : 13
Last line of while, space index now =  16
First line of the while, the space_index =  16
Lets get the word between index  13 and 16
Here is the word : who


Start now = : 17
Last line of while, space index now =  20
First line of the while, the space_index =  20
Lets get the word between index  17 and 20
Here is the word : run


Start now = : 21
Last line of while, space index now =  -1

[peterd1965]

One issue with my code is this WHILE statement will never get to the last word.

[micseydel]

I've split this from the OP: https://python-forum.io/Thread-help-with...4#pid50274

That user is probably done with the class so the folks on that thread don't need the notifications of new activity there. (I just replied with a link to this thread, so that any relevant folks do get one notification.)

@peterd1965, were you just making a comment or are you still looking for help? Can you reproduce your problem with 5-10 lines of runnable code along with its expected vs actual output?

[volcano63]

You can either:

• Add space to the end of your string - and you will find the last word
  
• Print form the position of start_of_word after the loop