chunks = re.findall("(\d+|\D+)",str)
#convert numeric strings to numbers
chunks = [re.match('\d',x) and int(x) or x for x in chunks]
return chunks
chunks = re.findall("(\d+|\D+)",str)
#convert numeric strings to numbers
chunks = [re.match('\d',x) and int(x) or x for x in chunks]
return chunks