How do you split a string at a specific point?

Question

I am new to python and want to split what I have read in from a text file into two specific parts. Below is an example of what could be read in:

f = ['Cats','like','dogs','as','much','cats.'][1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,6]

So what I want to achieve is to be able to execute the second part of the program is:

words = ['Cats','like','dogs','as','much','cats.']

numbers = [1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,6]

I have tried using:

words,numbers = f.split("][")

However, this removes the double bracets from the two new variable which means the second part of my program which recreates the original text does not work.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I assume f is a string like

f = "['Cats','like','dogs','as','much','cats.'][1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,6]" 

then we can find the index of ][ and add one to find the point between the brackets

i = f.index('][')
a, b = f[:i+1], f[i+1:]
print(a)
print(b)

output:

['Cats','like','dogs','as','much','cats.']
[1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,6]