import res = "1234|Google | Alphabet|pest||pp| |||r"print( re.split(r'\|(?<!\s\|(?=\s))', s) )
Standard input is empty
['1234', 'Google | Alphabet', 'pest', '', 'pp', ' ', '', '', 'r']
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