How do you obtain/split multiple string inputs in Python3

Question

So I have a function which obtains multiple arguments from a person:

@bot.command(name='koth')
async def koth_announcer(*args):

But how am I able to split the arguments into strings at a certain point? For instance: The user will input this: The Goblin Camp | -39,19 | 12:00 | 28/12 The Goblin Camp | -39,19 | 12:00 | 28/12

I need to be able to split the string at | . I tried:

args = str(args).split('|')

But this still returns everything as separate. Like this:

["('The'", " 'Goblin'", " 'Camp'", " '|'", " '-39", "19'", " '|'", " '12:00'", " '|'", " '28/12')"]

Answer 1

You can do it like so: first join the list then split it

@bot.command(name='koth')
async def koth_announcer(*args):
    msg = "".join(args) #joins the list of words first
    content = msg.split('|') #split the words at |