Is there a way to split a string by every nth separator in Python?

Question

For example, if I had the following string:

\"this-is-a-string\"

Could I split it by every 2nd \"-\" rather than every \"-\" so that it returns two values (\

Answer 1

Here’s another solution:

span = 2
words = "this-is-a-string".split("-")
print ["-".join(words[i:i+span]) for i in range(0, len(words), span)]