Let's say I have this text: 1.1 This is the 2,1 first 1.2 This is the 2,2 second 1.3 This is the 2,3 third and I want: ["1.1 This is the 2,1 first","1.2 This is the 2,2 second","1.3 This is the 2,3 third"] Note that: I can't use re.findall, since I can't think of a way to properly terminate the match. The best I could think of was '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+^([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)*', which didn't work. I can't just store the delimiter as a global variable, since it changes with each match. I could not use a regular re.split because I want to keep the delimiter. I can't use a lookbehind because it has to be fixed width, and this isn't. I have read regexp split and keep the seperator, Python split() without removing the delimiter, and In Python, how do I split a string and keep the separators?, and still don't have an answer. Continue reading...
