To split on whitespace, see How do I split a string into a list of words?. To extract everything before the first delimiter, see Splitting on first occurrence. To extract everything before the last delimiter, see …

return re.split(regex_pattern, string, maxsplit) If you're going to split often using the same delimiters, compile your regular expression beforehand like described and use RegexObject.split. If you'd like to …

This is an answer for Python split () without removing the delimiter, so not exactly what the original post asks but the other question was closed as a duplicate for this one.

If you want to split by 1 or more occurrences of a delimiter and don't want to just count on the default split() with no parameters happening to match your use case, you can use regex to match the delimiter.

428 What's the recommended Python idiom for splitting a string on the last occurrence of the delimiter in the string? example:

I would like to split a string, with multiple delimiters, but keep the delimiters in the resulting list. I think this is a useful thing to do an an initial step of parsing any kind of formula, and I suspect there is a nice …

The .split method of regular expressions has the same argument as the built-in string .split method, to limit the number of splits. Again, no splitting is done when the delimiter does not appear:

my_string="hello python world , i'm a beginner" print(my_string.split("world",1)[1]) split takes the word (or character) to split on and optionally a limit to the number of splits. In this example, split on "world" …

This is a mere for, there's not much to explain. I think you should read the python tutorial on data structures, especially list comprehension.

May 27, 2016 · If you’re not using a raw string to express the pattern, remember that Python also uses the backslash as an escape sequence in string literals; if the escape sequence isn’t recognized by …