[issue21551] Behavior of word boundaries in regexes unexpected

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

"Note that split will never split a string on an empty pattern match"

You can get what you want this way:

>>> re.split(r'(\w*)', 'a funky string')
['', 'a', ' ', 'funky', ' ', 'string', '']

Or use r'(\W*)' if you don't actually want the leading and training empty strings.

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nosy: +r.david.murray
resolution:  -> not a bug
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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