Splitting with Regular Expressions

[Thomas Guettler]

Am Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:51:19 -0800 schrieb qwweeeit:

> Splitting with RE has (for me!) misterious behaviour!
> 
> I want to get the words from this string:
> s= 'This+(that)= a.string!!!'
> 
> in a list like that ['This', 'that', 'a.string']
> considering "a.string" as a word.

Hi,

try this:

re.findall(r'[\w\.]+', s)
['This', 'that', 'a.string']

If you use r'...' you don't need to
use \\ if you mean \

\w matches a-zA-Z0-9_
\W matches all except \w

 Thomas

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