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

EDIT: The original code I posted didn't work. This version does:

I don't think you can split on every other one, but you could split on every - and join every pair.

chunks = []
content = "this-is-a-string"
split_string = content.split('-')

for i in range(0, len(split_string) - 1,2) :
    if i < len(split_string) - 1:
        chunks.append("-".join([split_string[i], split_string[i+1]]))
    else:
        chunks.append(split_string[i])