Why isn't SPLIT splitting my strings

[John Henry]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> John Henry wrote:
>
> > Oops!
>
> for cases like this, writing
>
> 	"[" + re.escape(charset) + "]"
>

So, like this?

newString= re.split("[" + re.escape("; ()[]") + "]", result)

> is usually a good way to avoid repeated oops:ing.
>
>  > newString= re.split("[; ()\[\]", result)
>
>  >>> newString= re.split("[; ()\[\]", result)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     ...
> sre_constants.error: unexpected end of regular expression
>

Strange.  It works for me.  Oh, I know, it's missing a "]".

newString= re.split("[; ()\[\]]", result)

> </F>