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Author	SilentGhost
Recipients	SilentGhost, dnotmanj, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett
Date	2015-01-25.18:10:22
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Message-id	<1422209422.52.0.448572609575.issue23318@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Looks like it works exactly as the docs[1] describe: >>> re.split(r'\s[+/&;,]\s\|\s+and\s+', string) ['Dave', 'Sam', 'Jane', 'Zoe'] You're using capturing groups (parentheses) in your original regex which returns separators as part of a match. [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.split

Looks like it works exactly as the docs[1] describe:

>>> re.split(r'\s*[+/&;,]\s*|\s+and\s+', string)
['Dave', 'Sam', 'Jane', 'Zoe']

You're using capturing groups (parentheses) in your original regex which returns separators as part of a match.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.split

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