Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Such problems are solved by using regular expressions.
>>> re.findall('(?:^|(?<=;)).?[^;]*', 'abc;;def;hij') ['abc', ';def', 'hij'] ---------- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22360> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com