["python","string","split"]
How to split strings into text and number?

I'd like to split strings like these 'foofo21' 'bar432' 'foobar12345' into ['foofo', '21'] ['bar', '432'] ['foobar', '12345'] Does somebody know an easy and simple way to do this in python?
I would approach this by using re.match in the following way: import re match = re.match(r"([a-z]+)([0-9]+)", 'foofo21', re.I) if match: items = match.groups() print(items) >> ("foofo", "21")