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python - Why are there extra empty strings at the beginning and end of the list returned by re.split?

I'm trying to take a string of ints and/or floats and create a list of floats. The string is going to have these brackets in them that need to be ignored. I'm using re.split, but if my string begins and ends with a bracket, I get extra empty strings. Why is that?

Code:

import re
x = "[1 2 3 4][2 3 4 5]"
y =  "1 2 3 4][2 3 4 5"
p = re.compile(r'[^d.]+')
print p.split(x)
print p.split(y)

Output:

['', '1', '2', '3', '4', '2', '3', '4', '5', '']
['1', '2', '3', '4', '2', '3', '4', '5']
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If you use re.split, then a delimiter at the beginning or end of the string causes an empty string at the beginning or end of the array in the result.

If you don't want this, use re.findall with a regex that matches every sequence NOT containing delimiters.

Example:

import re

a = '[1 2 3 4]'
print(re.split(r'[^d]+', a))
print(re.findall(r'[d]+', a))

Output:

['', '1', '2', '3', '4', '']
['1', '2', '3', '4']

As others have pointed out in their answers, this may not be the perfect solution for this problem, but it is a general answer to the problem described in the title of the question, which I also had to solve when I found this question using Google.


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