Regex to separate Numeric from Alpha

Question

I have a bunch of strings:

"10people"
"5cars"
..

How would I split this to?

['10','people']
['5','cars']

It can be any amount of numbers and text.

I'm thinking about writing some sort of regex - however I'm sure there's an easy way to do it in Python.

Answer 1

>>> re.findall('(\d+|[a-zA-Z]+)', '12fgsdfg234jhfq35rjg')
['12', 'fgsdfg', '234', 'jhfq', '35', 'rjg']

Answer 2

Use the regex (\d+)([a-zA-Z]+).

import re
a = ["10people", "5cars"]
[re.match('^(\\d+)([a-zA-Z]+)$', x).groups() for x in a]

Result:

[('10', 'people'), ('5', 'cars')]