Question

Is there a function in Python to split a string without ignoring the spaces in the resulting list?

E.g:

s='This is the string I want to split'.split() 

gives me

>>> s ['This', 'is', 'the', 'string', 'I', 'want', 'to', 'split'] 

I want something like

['This',' ','is',' ', 'the',' ','string', ' ', .....] 

Answer 1

>>> import re >>> re.split(r'(\s+)', 'This is the string I want to split') ['This', ' ', 'is', ' ', 'the', ' ', 'string', ' ', 'I', ' ', 'want', ' ', 'to', ' ', 'split'] 

Using the capturing parentheses in re.split() causes the function to return the separators as well.