I'm relatively new to regex and I'm struggeling with a very specific appliciation. Say I have a string such as this: "> The following will be split : This was split: But this wasn't: And neither is this > But this is again: Aswell as this" I want to split this string at >'s and :'s alternatingly, that is split at the first > and at the first : but not at the :'s after that until the next > follows. Also, idealy, the >'s should be capzured but not the :'s. (The symbols are placeholders for more complex patterns). For the record, that's: ['>', 'The following will be split', 'This was split: But this wasn't: And neither is this', '>', 'But this is again', 'Aswell as this'] How should I do that using a single re.split() expression? Continue reading...
