When you want to split a string by a specific delimiter like: __ or | or , etc. it's much easier and faster to split using .split() method as in the top answer because Python string methods are …

Jun 15, 2012 · Return a list of the words in the string, using sep as the delimiter string. If maxsplit is given, at most maxsplit splits are done (thus, the list will have at most maxsplit+1 elements). …

$ string = "blah, lots , of , spaces, here " $ re.split(', ',string) ['blah', 'lots ', ' of ', ' spaces', 'here '] This doesn't work well for your example string, but works nicely for a comma-space separated …

Dec 4, 2016 · For example \n is a newline character inside a python string which will lose its meaning in a raw string and will simply mean backslash followed by n. string.split() string.split() …

Here is a simple .split solution that works without regex.. This is an answer for Python split() without removing the delimiter, so not exactly what the original post asks but the other …

You can split a string by backslash using a.split('\\'). The reason this is not working in your case is that \x in your assignment a = "1\2\3\4" is interpreted as an octal number. If you prefix the …

Mar 21, 2012 · Using string methods, itertools.groupby, and actually writing functions (!), some of us manage to get by almost never using regexes, and in exchange for a few more keystrokes …

So i.split('\t', 1) calls the split() method of strings. Per the documentation, the first parameter of this method is the string to split by and the second is the maximum number of splits to perform. …

Nov 5, 2015 · You need to use re.split if you want to split a string according to a regex pattern. tokens = re.split(r'[.:]', ip) Inside a character class | matches a literal | symbol and note that [.:] …

Jul 1, 2017 · If you don't need the second part of the split, you could instead try searching the string for the index of the first -character and then slicing to that index: string[:string.index('-')] …