Python Regular Expressions -part #11 - Re.split

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[Xaminn]

Thanks for your time and expertise. This was enjoyable and educational. *subscribed*

[armyofone]

7:27 There another solution for this problem as well, is to use the none greedy quantifiers (+? *? ??)
"re.split(r"<.+?>"), string)"

[divinecaster]

Rumor has it the + greedy quantifier is still going to this day.

[antonybrun]

For the list comprehension to remove the empty strings there is not need to use if i != '', you can just say if i

[martinvandenbroek]

I enjoy the explanations very much but please try to limit the scrolling.

[conanh]

At 4:50, could you explain how re.split('<\w+>', string) works?
I thought \w only encompass alphanumeric characters and underscore, a bit confused why we got back ['', 'My mother has <span eyes.', ''] as result

[rajendram]

its confusing a lot and effecting the learned ones
'<p>My Mother has <span eyes.</p>'
>>> re.split('<.+>', string)
['', '']
it should have only one split right since its started with < (matching at start position) and did not end with > due to .+