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sklingel
sklingel

Reputation: 179

Python: Split a string, respect brackets

I'm trying to split something like the following string

s = '1 2 3 {test 0, test 0} {test 0 test 0}'

what I'm trying to get is

['1', '2', '3', '{test 0, test 0}', '{test 0, test 0}']

or 

['1', '2', '3', 'test 0, test 0', 'test 0, test 0']

Could someone please help me?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3238

Answers (1)

vks
vks

Reputation: 67968

\s(?![^{]*})

Split by this.See demo.

https://regex101.com/r/vN3sH3/4

re.split(r"\s(?![^{]*})",s)

Or 

print re.split(r"\s(?![^{]*})|{|}",s)

If you dont want {} as well.

Explanation:\s space

(?![^{]*}) negative lookahead stating after space there should not be } which has no { before it.

So this way {test 0 test 0} the space after 0 will not be considered as it has } ahead wihtout {.

Upvotes: 3

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