Splitting strings without losing the delimiter

Question

What I want to do is split a string such as >m27348020>m8918930

into a list in this format['>m27348020', '>m8911830]

Is there a way to do this using re.split? Splitting will happen with the> symbol.

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Jbund June 15. 15 at 17:53

2 answers

vks · Answer 1 · 2015-06-15T17:58:04+0000

Instead of splitting, you can easily do

import re
x=">m27348020>m8918930"
print re.findall(r">[^>]*",x)

ZdaR · Answer 2 · 2015-06-15T17:58:15+0000

You can just split the string at a given delimiter, and then just concatenate the delimiter at the start of each delimiter.

separator = ">"

line = ">m27348020>m8918930"

print [separator+i for i in line.split(separator) if len(i)>0]

>>> ['>m27348020', '>m8918930']