title: How can I use a single quote to split one column into two within a pandas dataframe?
body: <p>I have a column (<code>samplename_date</code>) of a dataframe that looks as follows:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>'008Q06-03 RGD17-48 3.8W Wm 1xtl'   03 July</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I'm trying to split this into two columns, after the second single quote.  I've been trying: </p>
  
  <p><code>temp[['samplename','date']] = df['samplename_date'].str.split(''\s', expand = True)</code></p>
  
  <p>and variations thereof, but I can't seem to figure out how to handle the single quote in the regular expression pattern.</p>