regex, split and ()

Wed Dec 27 12:14:34 EST 2000

I think I understand how regex split works:

>>> d=re.compile(r'(aa)')
>>> a="bbaacceeaadd"
>>> d.split(a)
['bb', 'aa', 'ccee', 'aa', 'dd']

I want to use this regex:

<[^<>]*(".*")?>

so:

>>> w=re.compile(r'(<[^<>]*(".*")?>)')
>>> s="<html> one <br> two <img src=\"<blah\"> three </html>"
>>> w.split(s)
['', '<html>', None, ' one ', '<br>', None, ' two ', '<img src="<blah">',
'"<blah"', ' three ', '</html>', None, '']

works good, but why it double everything? probably becouse I used second (),
how to fix it?

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