How to split my string "a!b!" into a!, b! in python?

Is it possible to separate the string "a!b!" into two strings "a!" and "b!" and store that in a list? I have tried the split() function (and even with the delimiter "!"), but it doesn’t seem to give me the right result that I want. Also, the character "!" could be any character.

>Solution :

How about :

string = 'a!ab!b!'
deliminator = '!'
word_list = [section+deliminator for section in string.split(deliminator) if section]
print(word_list)

Output :

['a!', 'ab!', 'b!']