[Python-ideas] str.split with multiple individual split characters

[Carl M. Johnson]

FWIW, I'd like it if something like this functionality existed in the
basic string methods. I'm aware of re.split, but in spite of learning
regular expressions two or three times already, I use them so
infrequently, I had already forgotten how to make it work and which
characters are special characters (I find this the hardest thing to
remember with regular expressions). So, I would appreciate it if
something like s.multisplit(["-", "_", ","]) existed.

Still, there is a simple enough non-regular expressions way of doing
such a split:

s = s.replace(",", "-").replace("_", "-")
items = s.split("-")

So, I don't think this is an urgent need. It's more of an "it would be
nice if" but I don't know how to square that against the maintenance
costs.