I have the following:
str = '[5.955894, 45.817792], [10.49238, 45.817792], [10.49238, 47.808381], [5.955894, 47.808381]'
I want to split it so that I have an array of strings like
['[5.955894, 45.817792]', '[10.49238, 45.817792]', ...]
So that the [...]
objects are elements of the array. It is important that the enclosing [
and ]
are included. I've come so far:
re.split('\D,\s\D', str)
But that gives me:
['[5.955894, 45.817792', '10.49238, 45.817792', '10.49238, 47.808381', '5.955894, 47.808381]']
I prefer to use re.findall
and specify what I want instead of trying to describe the delimiter for re.split
>>> s = '[5.955894, 45.817792], [10.49238, 45.817792], [10.49238, 47.808381], [5.955894, 47.808381]'
>>> re.findall(r"\[[^\]]*\]",s)
['[5.955894, 45.817792]', '[10.49238, 45.817792]', '[10.49238, 47.808381]', '[5.955894, 47.808381]']
\[
matches [[^\]]*
matches anything but ]\]
matches ]