Splitting a string with two different characters

Question

I have the following string

u'root\n |-- date: string (nullable = true)\n |-- zip: string (nullable = true)\n' 

I would like to extract the column names. The column names have |-- before them and : after them.

I could do this in two stages:

s = u'root\n |-- date: string (nullable = true)\n |-- zip: string (nullable = true)\n' 
s = s.split('|-- ')
s = s.split(':')

However, I wanted to know if there is a way to split with two characters at once.

Answer 1

However, I wanted to know if there is a way to split with two characters at once.

It is possible using re#split:

re.split(r'\|--|:', your_string)