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

Have you looked at pyparsing? Example borrowed from the pyparsing wiki:

>>> from pyparsing import Word, alphas
>>> greet = Word(alphas) + "," + Word(alphas) + "!"
>>> hello1 = 'Hello, World!'
>>> hello2 = 'Greetings, Earthlings!'
>>> for hello in hello1, hello2:
...     print (u'%s \u2192 %r' % (hello, greet.parseString(hello))).encode('utf-8')
... 
Hello, World! → (['Hello', ',', 'World', '!'], {})
Greetings, Earthlings! → (['Greetings', ',', 'Earthlings', '!'], {})