Split string at nth occurrence of a given character

Question

Is there a Python-way to split a string after the nth occurrence of a given delimiter?

Given a string:

\'20_231_myString_234\'

It s

Answer 1

>>>import re
>>>str= '20_231_myString_234'

>>> occerence = [m.start() for m in re.finditer('_',str)]  # this will give you a list of '_' position
>>>occerence
[2, 6, 15]
>>>result = [str[:occerence[1]],str[occerence[1]+1:]] # [str[:6],str[7:]]
>>>result
['20_231', 'myString_234']