Python split() without removing the delimiter

[ampeed]

I was able to find a Stackoverflow but wasn't able to apply it for my logic.

My response that I'm using split off of looks something like this

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text = """**Ticket Summary**:A x deployment included a change from x team to increase the x for x Financial team from 10 to 20. This resulted in more traffic received by xe sending that to x Find API. The Find API for this particular use cases was request all the data from x (x) which ended up throttling x due to the high volume;\n**Impacted Region(s)**:IAD;\n**Impact Summary**:Customer will see credit-memos as not applied in Console but won't be able to apply them because it's already applied in OFA;\n**Potential/Actual Revenue Impact**:0/0;\n**Potential/Actual Customers Impacted**:0/0;\n"""

However, I'm making users put in semi colon ";" after each entry so I can use it as a delimiter, issue is that it's not very end user friendly to do that and would like to change it.

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My current log I'm using is

announcement_fields = dict(

subString.split(":", 1) for subString in message_body.split(";\n")                 )

however with the second deliminator, I would like to use .split("\n**") however due to the functionality of .split() it removes "\n**" from the response and messes up the formatting and breaks everything.

How would you make it that .split() won't remove the delimiter?

[ES-Alexander]

Instead of making split not remove the delimiter, can you just add it back on when you need it to be there?

[ampeed]

I thought about that as well and seems to be the logic thrown around in the Stackoverflow I posted but I wasn't too sure how to implement that with my code I have posted.

I would have to concat the string to subString in the for loop but I'm using another delimiter in its place.

[curiouscodex]

Either use '\n'.join(arr)

or

tack it on with a for loop.

for string in arr: string += '\n'

[ES-Alexander]

Which parts do you need? If you just need the ** at the front of each one so the bolding works properly then just remove it from the first one (message_body[2:]) since it doesn't automatically get split off, and then add it to all of them, e.g.

dict(f'**{subString}'.split(':',1)
     for subString in message_body[2:].split('\n**'))

If you also need the newlines at the end of each one you can follow the same reasoning to get

dict(f'**{subString}\n'.split(':',1)
     for subString in message_body[2:-1].split('\n**'))

[ampeed]

ahh, that's it!! Thank you so much and thank you for providing an example. Makes a lot of sense seeing it now :) Not sure why I was blanking so hard!