Question

How to split this string where __ is the delimiter

MATCHES__STRING

To get an output of ['MATCHES', 'STRING']?

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_{For splitting specifically on whitespace, see How do I split a string into a list of words?.}

_{To extract everything before the first delimiter, see Splitting on first occurrence.}

_{To extract everything before the last delimiter, see partition string in python and get value of last segment after colon.}

Answer 1

You can use the str.split method: string.split('__')

>>> "MATCHES__STRING".split("__")
['MATCHES', 'STRING']