title: python regex split first character
body: <p>e.g. I have Name : <strong>John Frank Smith</strong></p>
  
  <p>What I want is to seperate by first space </p>
  
  <p>so array will be <strong><em>[0]=John [1]=Frank Smith</em></strong></p>
  
  <p>what I tried, I replace space by ~ and tried to split by regex.</p>
  
  <pre><code>import re
  s="John~Frank~Smith"
  l=re.compile(r'/~(.+)?/').split(s)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>output is:</p>
  
  <pre><code> ['John~Frank~Smith']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I achieve as described above?</p>
  
  <p>first I don't know how to put space in regex.</p>