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Python split function behaviour

returns This behaviour seems really strange to me. Why are blanks returned only for b and not a? Answer As was pointed out by others, the documented behavior of str.split explains your results. Since you specify sep to be ‘)’, split looks for the strings that surround it, and in the case of &#8216…

python: split a list of strings based on a condition

I have a list like the following: I would like to split the list in a way to get the following output. I have tried the following but do not get the result i am looking for. Answer Almost. First of all, the following produces what you want – More specifically, it seems you want to split by a space-chara…

How to split with Dot without splitting links [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: How to split by comma and strip white spaces in Python? (10 answers) Closed 1 year ago. I want to split on dot (.) but I don’t want to splits the links. Let’s say the string is – Expected Output – Current Output – Note that I don’t wa…

How to split AFTER underscore in Python

I’ve seen a lot of threads that say how to split based on an underscore, but how can we split a string where the split is done after the underscore. So let’s say I have a pandas dataframe with one column: how can I achieve the following output? Thanks in advance. Answer You can split with the _ as…

Python Conditional Split

Given this string: I want to split it on each new record (which starts with a date) like this: Notice the extra new line delimiter between ABC and DEF? That’s the challenge I’m having. I want to preserve it without a split there. I’m thinking I need to conditionally split on any delimiter of…