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i just wrote a function to split a string into parts based on a list of delimiters used in sequence.

>>> splits('abcdefghijklm',['b','ef','ij'])
['a','cd','gh','klm']

i wrote this because i needed it in a big script i was making. did i waste my time doing this?

re.split

what i wrote uses a list of (usually different) delimiters, each doing a split only once. and the delimiters are raw, so the code that creates them does not need to translate them to regular expressions.