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 can use re.findall to find the none words delimiters using look around:

>>> string ="someText:someValue~andthsi#istest@"
>>> re.findall('(?<=\w)(\W)(?=\w)',string)
[':', '~', '#']