Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> alf wrote:
>
>> Let's run following:
>>
>> >>> re.compile('(\[.*?\])').split('[aa]bb[11]22')
>> ['', '[aa]', 'bb', '[11]', '22']
>>
>> Why does it return '' as a first element of the list?
>
>
> because the string starts with a separator.
>
> </F>
>
so is it safe to say that the index of separator in the list is always
an odd number?-- alfz1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
