Python split a string w/ multiple delimiter and find the delimiter used

Question

How to split string with multiple delimiters and find out which delimiter was used to split the string with a maxsplit of 1.

import re

string =\"someText:so         


        

Answer 1

You may use re.findall.

>>> string ="someText:someValue~"
>>> re.findall(r'^([^:~]*)([:~])([^:~].*)', string)
[('someText', ':', 'someValue~')]