How to split pipe-separated string into a list?

Question

I have this string:

var(HELLO,)|var(Hello again)| var(HOW ARE YOU?)|outV(0)|outV(1)|outV(2)|END

I want to split it on the |. I don't want it to split at the white-space, only at the |.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

The way to do this is clearly documented here.

Example:

>>> myString = "subString1|substring2|subString3"
>>> myString = myString.split("|")
>>> print myString
["subString1", "subString2", "subString3"]