Python regular expression question

[Thomas Guettler]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 07:34:27PM +1000, DJ wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I cant figure out a re that matches a string in a sentance.
> The string can be anywhere in the sentance
> 
> eg
> 
> "dog"
> 
> I walked my dog today

Maybe \w* is what you are looking for:

import re 
sentence="I walked my dog today" 
words=re.findall(r'\w*', sentence) 
print words

#skip empty strings:
for word in words:
    if not word:
        continue
    print word
 
-->
['I', '', 'walked', '', 'my', '', 'dog', '', 'today', '']
I
walked
my
dog
today

 thomas

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