# Split the string using the separator
text= "Orange,Apple,Grapes,WaterMelon,Kiwi"
print(text.split(','))

# split strings around given separator/delimiter
# import Pandas as pd
import pandas as pd
# create a new data frame
df = pd.DataFrame({'Location': ['Cupertino,California', 'Los Angles, California', 'Palo Alto, California'] })
df[['City','State']] = df.Location.str.split(',',expand=True)
df
print(df)

def split_words_separators(an_input: str) -> list: """Returns two lists, one with words, and one with the separators used in input string""" merged = re.split(r"([ ,]+)", an_input) # the [::2] is to get the even indexes, which are the words # the [1::2] is to get the odd indexes, which are the separators return [merged[::2], merged[1::2]]