Convert a string list to a tuple in Python

Question

I am trying to convert a string such as 'SUP E P I C' to a tuple containing all the non-spaced strings. For example, if the input is 'SUP E P I C', then the program should return ('S', 'U', 'P', 'E', 'P', 'I', 'C') and I am trying the obvious method of looping, and I started as follows:

for ch in john:
    if ch != ' ':
        j1 += ch
    else:
        # stuff

I'm stuck because I can add the first entry of the tuple but after that skipping the space is just escaping me. Any hints would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

tuples are immutable, so building them up one item at a time is very inefficient. You can pass a sequence directly to tuple

>>> tuple('SUP E P I C'.replace(" ",""))
('S', 'U', 'P', 'E', 'P', 'I', 'C')

or use a generator expression (overkill for this example)

>>> tuple(x for x in 'SUP E P I C' if not x.isspace())
('S', 'U', 'P', 'E', 'P', 'I', 'C')