[Tutor] Splitting on punctuation

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

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> From: Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
>To: tutor at python.org 
>Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 7:48 AM
>Subject: Re: [Tutor] Splitting on punctuation
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>On 09/06/13 00:44, Mike Nickey wrote:
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>> One of the tasks is to split on punctuation passed yet I'm having a bit
>> more trouble then I expected.
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>You do realize that split() can do that for you?
>Its not limited to splitting on whitespace?

Or use re.split:


>>> import re, string
>>> string.punctuation
'!"#$%&\'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\\]^_`{|}~'
>>> re.split("[" + string.punctuation + "]+", "yes, but no. But: yes, no")
['yes', ' but no', ' But', ' yes', ' no']
>>>