Split a string by a delimiter in python

Question

How to split this string where __ is the delimiter

MATCHES__STRING

To get an output of [\'MATCHES\', \'STRING\']?

Answer 1

When you have two or more (in the example below there're three) elements in the string, then you can use comma to separate these items:

date, time, event_name = ev.get_text(separator='@').split("@")

After this line of code, the three variables will have values from three parts of the variable ev

So, if the variable ev contains this string and we apply separator '@':

Sa., 23. März@19:00@Klavier + Orchester: SPEZIAL

Then, after split operation the variable

• date will have value "Sa., 23. März"
• time will have value "19:00"
• event_name will have value "Klavier + Orchester: SPEZIAL"