String splitting with exceptions

[John Levine]

>Can you have brackets within brackets? If so, this is impossible to deal
>with within a regex.

Nope.  It's a regular language, not a CFL.

>Otherwise:
>>>> re.findall('((?:[^[:]|\[[^]]*\])*):?',s)
>['foo.[DOM]', '', '[IP6::4361:6368:6574]', '600', '', '']

That seems to do it, thanks.

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