Is there any equivalent to str.split in Python that also returns the delimiters?
I need to preserve the whitespace layout for my output after processing some of the tokens.
Example:
>>> s="\tthis is an example"
>>> print s.split()
['this', 'is', 'an', 'example']
>>> print what_I_want(s)
['\t', 'this', ' ', 'is', ' ', 'an', ' ', 'example']
Thanks!
Thanks guys for pointing for the re module, I'm still trying to decide between that and using my own function that returns a sequence...
def split_keep_delimiters(s, delims="\t\n\r "):
delim_group = s[0] in delims
start = 0
for index, char in enumerate(s):
if delim_group != (char in delims):
delim_group ^= True
yield s[start:index]
start = index
yield s[start:index+1]
If I had time I'd benchmark them xD