Question

I have string which contains every word separated by comma. I want to split the string by every other comma in python. How should I do this?

eg, "xyz,abc,jkl,pqr" should give "xyzabc" as one string and "jklpqr" as another string

Answer 1

It’s probably easier to split on every comma, and then rejoin pairs

>>> original = 'a,1,b,2,c,3'
>>> s = original.split(',')
>>> s
['a', '1', 'b', '2', 'c', '3']
>>> alternate = map(''.join, zip(s[::2], s[1::2]))
>>> alternate
['a1', 'b2', 'c3']

Is that what you wanted?