using string.splitfields

[Fredrik Lundh]

Thomas Weholt <u970130 at studbo.hit.no> wrote:
> Just wondering how I could use more field-separators when I use the
> string.splitfield method.

you can't.  string.split can only
deal with a single separator.

(string.splitfield is obsolete, btw.
use string.split instead).

in this case, you can use
re.split instead:

import re
print re.split("[.+!]", "this.is+a!string")
## ['this', 'is', 'a', 'string']

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