Split a string with different condition without removing the character in python

Question

I have a string with parameters in it:

text =  "Uncertain significance PVS1=0 PS=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0] PM=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] PP=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] BA1=0 BS=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0] BP=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]"

I want to remove spaces to obtain all parameters individually in the following way:

pred_res = ["Uncertain significance","PVS1=0","PS=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0]","PM=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]","PP=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]","BA1=0","BS=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0]","BP=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]"]

So far I have used this regex pattern:

pat = re.compile('[a-z]\s[A-Z]|[0-9]\s[A-Z]|]\s[A-Z]')

But it's giving me the result in the following way where it removes characters:

res = ["Uncertain significanc","VS1=","S=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0","M=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0","P=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0","A1=","S=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0","P=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]"]

So is there a way to prevent this and obtain the result shown in pred_res?

Answer 1

You can use a lookahead to check that there is an = in the text immediately following a space.

import re
text = 'Uncertain significance PVS1=0 PS=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0] PM=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] PP=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] BA1=0 BS=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0] BP=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]'
pred_res = re.split(r' (?=\w+=)', text)
print(pred_res)
# ['Uncertain significance', 'PVS1=0', 'PS=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0]', 'PM=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]', 'PP=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]', 'BA1=0', 'BS=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0]', 'BP=[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]']