In Python, how do I split a string and keep the separators?

Question

Here's the simplest way to explain this. Here's what I'm using:

re.split('\W', 'foo/bar spam\neggs')
-> ['foo', 'bar', 'spam', 'eggs']

Here's what I want:

someMethod('\W', 'foo/bar spam\neggs')
-> ['foo', '/', 'bar', ' ', 'spam', '\n', 'eggs']

The reason is that I want to split a string into tokens, manipulate it, then put it back together again.

Answer 1

>>> re.split('(\W)', 'foo/bar spam\neggs')
['foo', '/', 'bar', ' ', 'spam', '\n', 'eggs']