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 …

This doesn't work well for your example string, but works nicely for a comma-space separated list. For your example string, you can combine the re.split power to split on regex patterns to get a "split-on …

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 …

To split on other delimiters, see Split a string by a delimiter in python. To split into individual characters, see How do I split a string into a list of characters?.

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How do I split a string into a list of characters? str.split does not work.

I am trying to split this string in python: 2.7.0_bf4fda703454 I want to split that string on the underscore _ so that I can use the value on the left side.

31 Using split() will be the most Pythonic way of splitting on a string. It's also useful to remember that if you use split() on a string that does not have a whitespace then that string will be returned to you in a …

Apr 17, 2015 · Are you trying to make a list of all elements seperated by either a '-' or ':'. Or just remove those characters from the string and return the new string sans thats character?