Splitting on regex without removing delimiters

Question

So, I would like to split this text into sentences.

s = \"You! Are you Tom? I am Danny.\"

so I get:

[\"You!\", \"Are you To         


        

Answer 1

If you prefer use split method rather than match, one solution split with group

splitted = filter(None, re.split( r'(.*?[\.!\?])', s))

Filter removes empty strings if any.

This will work even if there is no spaces between sentences, or if you need catch trailing sentence that ends with a different punctuation sign, such as an unicode ellipses (or does have any at all)

It even possible to keep you re as is (with escaping correction and adding parenthesis).

splitted = filter(None, re.split( r'([\.!\?])', s))

Then merge even and uneven elements and remove extra spaces

Python split() without removing the delimiter