Python regex split without empty string

Question

I have the following file names that exhibit this pattern:

000014_L_20111007T084734-20111008T023142.txt
000014_U_20111007T084734-20111008T023142.txt
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Answer 1

If the timestamps are always after the second _ then you can use str.split and str.strip:

>>> strs = "000014_L_20111007T084734-20111008T023142.txt"
>>> strs.strip(".txt").split("_",2)[-1].split("-")
['20111007T084734', '20111008T023142']