I've got some strings to split. They are main words, but some words are inside a pair of brackets and should be considered as one unit. I prefer to use re.split, but haven't written a working one after hours of work.
Example: "a (b c) d [e f g] h i" should be splitted to ["a", "(b c)", "d", "[e f g]", "h", "i"] As speed is a factor to consider, it's best if there is a single line regular expression can handle this. I tried this but failed: re.split(r"(?![\(\[].*?)\s+(?!.*?[\)\]])", s). It work for "(a b) c" but not work "a (b c)" :( Any hint? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
