Product code looks like abcd2343, what to split by letters and numbers

Question

I have a list of product codes in a text file, on each like is the product code that looks like:

abcd2343 abw34324 abc3243-23A

Answer 1

To partition on the first digit

parts = re.split('(\d.*)','abcd2343')      # => ['abcd', '2343', '']
parts = re.split('(\d.*)','abc3243-23A')   # => ['abc', '3243-23A', '']

So the two parts are always parts[0] and parts[1].

Of course, you can apply this to multiple codes:

>>> s = "abcd2343 abw34324 abc3243-23A"
>>> results = [re.split('(\d.*)', pcode) for pcode in s.split(' ')]
>>> results
[['abcd', '2343', ''], ['abw', '34324', ''], ['abc', '3243-23A', '']]

If each code is in an individual line then instead of s.split( ) use s.splitlines().