splitting a string into 2 new strings

[Anton Vredegoor]

"Mark Light" <light at soton.ac.uk> wrote:

>      I have a string e.g. 'C6 H12 O6' that I wish to split up to give 2
>strings
>'C H O' and '6 12 6'.  I have played with string.split() and the re module -
>but can't quite get there.

The issue seems to be resolved already, but I haven't seen the split
and strip combination:

from string import letters,digits

def mysplit(s):
    L = [(x.strip(digits) ,x.strip(letters))  for x in s.split()]
    return [ ' '.join(x) for x in zip(*L)]

Anton