Splitting a string by list of indices

Question

I want to split a string by a list of indices, where the split segments begin with one index and end before the next one.

Example:

Answer 1

You can write a generator if you don't want to make any modifications to the list of indices:

>>> def split_by_idx(S, list_of_indices):
...     left, right = 0, list_of_indices[0]
...     yield S[left:right]
...     left = right
...     for right in list_of_indices[1:]:
...         yield S[left:right]
...         left = right
...     yield S[left:]
... 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> s = 'long string that I want to split up'
>>> indices = [5,12,17]
>>> [i for i in split_by_idx(s, indices)]
['long ', 'string ', 'that ', 'I want to split up']