Splitting a string with repeated characters into a list

Question

I am not well experienced with Regex but I have been reading a lot about it. Assume there\'s a string s = \'111234\' I want a list with the string split into

Answer 1

Use re.finditer():

>>> s='111234'
>>> [m.group(0) for m in re.finditer(r"(\d)\1*", s)]
['111', '2', '3', '4']