Split a string by a delimiter in python

You may be interested in the csv module, which is designed for comma-separated files but can be easily modified to use a custom delimiter.

import csv
csv.register_dialect( "myDialect", delimiter = "__", <other-options> )
lines = [ "MATCHES__STRING" ]

for row in csv.reader( lines ):
    ...

When you have two or more elements in the string (in the example below there are three), then you can use a comma to separate these items:

date, time, event_name = ev.get_text(separator='@').split("@")

After this line of code, the three variables will have values from three parts of the variable ev.

So, if the variable ev contains this string and we apply separator @:

Sa., 23. März@19:00@Klavier + Orchester: SPEZIAL

Then, after the split operation the variable

• date will have value Sa., 23. März
• time will have value 19:00
• event_name will have value Klavier + Orchester: SPEZIAL

You can use the str.split method: string.split('__')

>>> "MATCHES__STRING".split("__")
['MATCHES', 'STRING']