re.split question

[Steffen Ries]

bragib at my-deja.com writes:

> This goes using re:
> 
> >>> p = '\,'
> >>> pat = re.compile(p, re.IGNORECASE)
> >>> t = 'uid=joe, ou=orgunit, o=some\\org'
> >>> pat.split(t)
> ['uid=joe', ' ou=orgunit', ' o=some\\org']

Unfortunately, this does not do what I need:
>>> t='uid=joe, ou=orgunit, o=some\\, org'
>>> pat.split(t)
['uid=joe', ' ou=orgunit', ' o=some\\', ' org']

the last two elements should be one (i.e. 'o=some\\, org')

(string.split has the same problem)

/steffen
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