multi split function taking delimiter list

[Sam Pointon]

On Nov 14, 7:56 pm, "martins... at gmail.com" <martins... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi, I'm looking for something like:
>
> multi_split( 'a:=b+c' , [':=','+'] )
>
> returning:
> ['a', ':=', 'b', '+', 'c']
>
> whats the python way to achieve this, preferably without regexp?

pyparsing <http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/> is quite a cool package
for doing this sort of thing. Using your example:

#untested
from pyparsing import *

splitat = Or(":=", "+")
lexeme = Word(alphas)
grammar = splitat | lexeme

grammar.parseString("a:=b+c")
#returns (the equivalent of)  ['a', ':=', 'b', '+', 'c'].

--Sam