>>> input=' Your string with spaces, commas; dots...'
>>> re.sub('\W', ' ', input).split()
['Your', 'string', 'with', 'spaces', 'commas', 'dots']
re.split('[^., ]+', 'your string with spaces, commas and dots.')re.split('[., ]+', 'your string with spaces, commas and dots.')
SEPARATORS=",.;?! "
def toster_word_split(s):
result=[]
current_word=''
for char in s:
if char in SEPARATORS:
if current_word: result.append(current_word)
current_word=''
else:
current_word+=char
return result
print toster_word_split("Lorem,ipsum;bingo.Bongo? King of Kongo.")