regex, split and ()

Wed Dec 27 12:22:30 EST 2000

On 27 Dec 2000 17:14:34 GMT, Jacek Pop³awski <jp at ulgo.koti.com.pl> wrote:
>>>> w=re.compile(r'(<[^<>]*(".*")?>)')
>>>> s="<html> one <br> two <img src=\"<blah\"> three </html>"
>>>> w.split(s)
>['', '<html>', None, ' one ', '<br>', None, ' two ', '<img src="<blah">',
>'"<blah"', ' three ', '</html>', None, '']

>works good, but why it double everything? probably becouse I used second (),
>how to fix it?

    Use ?: in the parens you don't want to retain.


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