Is there an easy way to split text into separate lines each time a specific type of font arises. For example, I have text that looks like this:
BILLY: The sky is blue. SALLY: It really is blue. SAM: I think it looks like this: terrible. I'd like to split the text into lines for each speaker:
BILLY: The sky is blue. SALLY: It really is blue. SAM: I think it looks like this: terrible. The speaker is always capitalized with a colon following the name.
import re a="BILLY: The sky is blue. SALLY: It really is blue. SAM: I think it looks like this: terrible." print re.split(r"\s(?=[A-Z]+:)",a) You can use re.split for this.
Output:['BILLY: The sky is blue.', 'SALLY: It really is blue.', 'SAM: I think it looks like this: terrible.']
If you just want to change the text rather than have a list, you could do the following:
import re text = "BILLY: The sky is blue. SALLY: It really is blue. SAM: I think it looks like this: terrible." print re.sub(r'([A-Z]+\:)', r'\n\1', text).lstrip() This would print:
BILLY: The sky is blue. SALLY: It really is blue. SAM: I think it looks like this: terrible. 