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I'm trying to split a long string using both a colon and new line as delimiters. It is splitting on the colon but not the new line. I guess I need some help on the proper syntax for the new line character. TIA

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entities=re.split('\n |: ',result)

Do you want those spaces there? Note that the pipe (|) only works on characters or groups. Right now your re matches '\n ' or '\n: '. You want either '\n|:' (if you don't want to match the spaces) or '(\n )|(: )' (if you do want to match the spaces).

No, I don't. New eyes always help. Thanks, that fixed it.