how to split a list in 2 parts in python code example

Example 1: how to split a string in python with multiple delimiters

>>> a='Beautiful, is; better*than\nugly'
>>> import re
>>> re.split('; |, |\*|\n',a)
['Beautiful', 'is', 'better', 'than', 'ugly']

Example 2: split list in 3 part

def even_divide(lst, num_piece=4):
    return [
        [lst[i] for i in range(len(lst)) if (i % num_piece) == r]
        for r in range(num_piece)
    ]