Split compound abbreviated color-scheme names into short channel titles

split_abbreviations.py

def split_abbreviations(s):
    abbreviations = []
    current_token = ''
    for char in s:
        if current_token is '':
            current_token += char
        elif char.islower():
            current_token += char
        else:
            abbreviations.append(str(current_token))
            current_token = ''
            current_token += char
    if current_token is not '':
        abbreviations.append(str(current_token))
    return abbreviations


def main():
    for abbrev in ['RGB', 'CMYK', 'YCrCb', 'sRGB', 'RGBA', 'YoDoggIHeardYouLikeAbbreviations']:
        print "%s: %s" % (abbrev, split_abbreviations(abbrev))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

"""

RGB: ['R', 'G', 'B']
CMYK: ['C', 'M', 'Y', 'K']
YCrCb: ['Y', 'Cr', 'Cb']
sRGB: ['s', 'R', 'G', 'B'] # not exactly but... judges? we'll take it
RGBA: ['R', 'G', 'B', 'A']
YoDoggIHeardYouLikeAbbreviations: ['Yo', 'Dogg', 'I', 'Heard', 'You', 'Like', 'Abbreviations']

"""