"qwweeeit" <qwweeeit at yahoo.it> wrote: > 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. print re.findall("[\w.]+", s) </F>