Question

string= "im fine.gds how are you"

if '.gds' or '.cdl' in string :

    a=string.split("????????")

the above string may contain .gds or .cdl extension. I want to split the string based on the extension.

here how the parameters can be passed to split function.(EX if .gds is present in string then it should take as split(".gds")
if .cdl is there in string then it should get split(".cdl"))

Answer 1

Use regular expression module re to split either by pattern1 or pattern2

import re
re.split('\.gds|\.cdl', your_string)

Example:

>>> re.split('\.gds|\.cdl', "im fine.gds how are you")
['im fine', ' how are you']
>>> re.split('\.gds|\.cdl', "im fine.cdl how are you")
['im fine', ' how are you']
>>> re.split('\.gds|\.cdl', "im fine.cdl how are.gds you")
['im fine', ' how are', ' you']