Split string by separators

Question

I'm try to split text from string, but I can't.

I have 1;2 | 2;4, for example in my string, and I want to:

['1;2', '|', '2;4']

Answer 1

You can use str.partition:

>>> '1;2 | 2;4'.partition("|")
('1;2 ', '|', ' 2;4')