lets say I have a string .
a = '!!!!!!a1@@@@@@a2&&&&&&a3::::'
It naturally splits by: a1,a2 and a3 to
['!!!!!!','@@@@@@','&&&&&&','::::']
I want to use the split function, something like:
>>> a.split('a*')
The * indicates that it doesn't matter what character comes after a. Is there an immediate way to do this?