R. David Murray added the comment: "Note that split will never split a string on an empty pattern match"
You can get what you want this way: >>> re.split(r'(\w*)', 'a funky string') ['', 'a', ' ', 'funky', ' ', 'string', ''] Or use r'(\W*)' if you don't actually want the leading and training empty strings. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21551> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
