tokenize a string keeping delimiters in Python

Question

Is there any equivalent to str.split in Python that also returns the delimiters?

I need to preserve the whitespace layout for my output after processing som

Answer 1

>>> re.compile(r'(\s+)').split("\tthis is an  example")
['', '\t', 'this', ' ', 'is', ' ', 'an', '  ', 'example']