Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

Such problems are solved by using regular expressions.

>>> re.findall('(?:^|(?<=;)).?[^;]*', 'abc;;def;hij')
['abc', ';def', 'hij']

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nosy: +serhiy.storchaka

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