need help of RE

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 29 May 2005 at 07:39 GMT, cheng wrote:
> hi all
> a string like
> 
> "(word1 & (Word2|woRd3))"
> 
> how can i use the re to split it to
> 
> ['word1', 'word2', 'word3']

    This splits the string on one or more occurrences of any character
    that is not alphanumeric: 

import re
str = "(word1 & (Word2|woRd3))"
s = re.sub("[^a-zA-Z0-9]+"," ",str).split()

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