splitting using '\' as a delimiter

[Peoter Veliki]

I have strings like this:

string = 'value\key'

that I would like to split.  If I try splitting the string like this:

alias = string.split('\\',string)

I get:

alias = ['\']    

How can I do this?

Thanks
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