Splitting strings in Python using specific characters

Question

I\'m trying to split an inputted document at specific characters. I need to split them at [ and ] but I\'m having a difficult time figuring this out.

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Answer 1

string.split(s), the one you are using, treats the entire content of 's' as a separator. In other words, you input should've looked like "[]'I need to []go out[] to lunch', 'and eat []some food[].'[]" for it to give you the results you want.

You need to use split(s) from the re module, which will treat s as a regex

import re

def main():
for x in docread:
    words = re.split('[]', x)
    for word in words:
        doclist.append(word)