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Contrary to the split string method, which started at the left of a string in order to split the invoked string, the rsplit() string method is used to split the content of the invoked string by starting at the right of the string and at the occurrence of a specific separator. The rsplit() method returns a list of split values.

Note : By default, the slit() method splits the content of a string at the occurrence of each white space in it but you can specify your own separator as well.

Signature of rsplit() method

count(value, start, end)

Parameters	Description
separator	This optional parameter is a string value, which acts a separator, used to split the values of the invoked string. The default separator is white space.
maxnumber	This optional parameter is an integer value, used to specify the maximum number of splits to perform. Its default value is -1 i.e. a split for each occurrence of separator value.

• An example of rsplit() method


In the upcoming code, we have a string object initialized to a value Do not rest yet, get up and work hard! and we are going to call the rsplit() method on it to perform the number of splits on the basis of default separator used by the rsplit() method i.e. white space. Let us see the example.



# Python - Example of rsplit() method.



# Creating a string 
s1 = 'Life is what you make out of it!'


# Printing the value of string 
print('String is : ', s1)


# Calling the rsplit() method on string
# which will perform the number of splits(starting at the right)
# on the basis of default separator i.e. white space 
# and returns a list containing all the split values
a_list = s1.rsplit()


# Priting all the split values 
print('A list of splits : ', a_list)





Output is :




String is :  Life is what you make out of it!
A list of splits :  ['Life', 'is', 'what', 'you', 'make', 'out', 'of', 'it!']





Program Analysis


In the above program, we have created a string object with value Life is what you make out of it!. And on calling the rsplit() method, it has performed a number of splits on the basis of default separator value used by the rsplit() method i.e. a white space character and has returned a list containing all the split values.




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• Method rsplit() is case-sensitive.


We can even specify our own separator to the rsplit() method but you must not forget that when searching for the occurrence of a separator, the method rsplit() performs a case-sensitive search. Let us see an example



# Python - Example of rsplit() method.



# Creating a string 
s1 = 'Tomorrow never comes, All we have is NOW!'


# Printing the value of string 
print('String is : ', s1)


# Calling the rsplit() method on string
# which will perform the number of splits on the basis of separator upper case 'A'
a_list = s1.rsplit('A')


# Priting all the spiits 
print('Number of splits when the separator is A : ', a_list)



# Calling the rsplit() method on string
# which will perform the number of splits on the basis of separator lower case 'e'
# used by the rsplit() method i.e. white space 
a_list = s1.rsplit('e')


# Priting all the spiits 
print('Number of splits when the separator is e :', a_list)




# Calling the rsplit() method on string
# which will perform the number of splits on the basis of separator ','
# used by the rsplit() method i.e. white space 
a_list = s1.rsplit(',')


# Priting all the spiits 
print('Number of splits when the separator is , :', a_list)




# Calling the rsplit() method on string
# which will perform the number of splits on the basis of separator lower case 'n'
# used by the rsplit() method i.e. white space 
a_list = s1.rsplit('n')


# Priting all the spiits 
print('Number of splits when the separator is n :', a_list)



# Calling the rsplit() method on string
# which will perform the number of splits on the basis of separator lower case 'N'
# used by the rsplit() method i.e. white space 
a_list = s1.rsplit('N')


# Priting all the spiits 
print('Number of splits when the separator is N :', a_list)




Output is :




String is :  Tomorrow never comes, All we have is NOW!
Number of splits when the separator is A :  ['Tomorrow never comes, ', 'll we have is NOW!']
Number of splits when the separator is e : ['Tomorrow n', 'v', 'r com', 's, All w', ' hav', ' is NOW!']
Number of splits when the separator is , : ['Tomorrow never comes', ' All we have is NOW!']
Number of splits when the separator is n : ['Tomorrow ', 'ever comes, All we have is NOW!']
Number of splits when the separator is N : ['Tomorrow never comes, All we have is ', 'OW!']








• To perform only a specific number of splits.

When calling the rsplit() method, we can even specify a maximum number(and not more than that) of splits to perform on the invoked string(starting from the right of string), on the basis of a separator. Let us see an example.

# Python - Example of rsplit() method.



# Creating a string 
s1 = 'Eddiee edited it'


# Printing the value of string 
print('String is : ', s1)



# Calling the rsplit() method on string, starting from the right
# which will perform 2 splits on the basis of separator lower case 'e'
a_list = s1.rsplit('e', 2)


# Priting all the spiits 
print('2 Splits when the separator is e : ', a_list)



# Calling the rsplit() method on string, starting from the right
# which will perform 2 splits on the basis of separator lower case 'i'
a_list = s1.rsplit('i', 2)


# Priting all the spiits 
print('2 Splits when the separator is i :', a_list)



# Calling the rsplit() method on string, starting from the right
# which will perform 1 split on the basis of separator lower case 't'
a_list = s1.rsplit('t', 1)


# Priting all the spiits 
print('1 split when the separator is t :', a_list)



# Calling the rsplit() method on string, starting from the right
# which will perform 2 splits on the basis of separator lower case 'd'
a_list = s1.rsplit('d', 2)


# Priting all the spiits 
print('2 Splits when the separator is d :', a_list)

Output is :

String is :  Eddiee edited it
2 Splits when the separator is e :  ['Eddiee ', 'dit', 'd it']
2 Splits when the separator is i : ['Eddiee ed', 'ted ', 't']
1 split when the separator is t : ['Eddiee edited i', '']
2 Splits when the separator is d : ['Eddiee e', 'ite', ' it']

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