added split_wildcards

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Added
 -----
 
 - handling `special characters escaping`_
-- added iter_wildcards to have a finer grained search of wildcard in terms
+- added `iter_wildcards` and `split_wildcards` to have a finer grained search of wildcard in terms
 
 .. _`special characters escaping`: https://lucene.apache.org/core/3_6_0/queryparsersyntax.html#Escaping%20Special%20Characters
 

luqum/tests/tests.py

@@ -57,6 +57,16 @@ def test_term_iter_wildcard(self):
             [((2, 3), "*"), ((5, 6), "*")],
             )
 
+    def test_term_split_wildcard(self):
+        self.assertListEqual(
+            Term(r"a??b\*or*and\?").split_wildcards(),
+            ["a", "?", "", "?", r"b\*or", "*", r"and\?"],
+            )
+        self.assertListEqual(
+            Term(r"\**\**").split_wildcards(),
+            [r"\*", "*", r"\*", "*", ""],
+            )
+
     def test_equality_approx(self):
         """
         Regression test for a bug on approx equalities.

luqum/tree.py

@@ -170,6 +170,11 @@ def iter_wildcards(self):
         for matched in self.WILDCARDS_PATTERN.finditer(self.value):
             yield matched.span(), matched.group()
 
+    def split_wildcards(self):
+        """split term on wildcards
+        """
+        return self.WILDCARDS_PATTERN.split(self.value)
+
     def has_wildcard(self):
         """:return bool: True if value contains a wildcards
         """