Question

I have a long string separated with ordinal numbers. For example: “1. Good morning 2. Hello 3. Bye” (but it is not compulsory that there is a number at beginning and I don’t knew how many numbers are there, if any.) and I would like to get list like this: ["Good morning", "Hello", "Bye"]

Answer 1

In [1]: s = '1. Good morning 2. Hello 3. Bye'

In [2]: import re

In [3]: re.split('\d+\. ', s)
Out[3]: ['', 'Good morning ', 'Hello ', 'Bye']

If there’s no number in the beginning, the first element will not be empty. However, this doesn’t check that the numbers are in correct order. Let me know if this is important.

Edit: thanks to @glglgl for the comment. Splitting on ' *\d+\. *' may be better in terms of leading/trailing spaces.