[Tutor] Splitting on punctuation [was Tutor Digest, Vol 112, Issue 29]

[Steven D'Aprano]

On 10/06/13 15:49, Mike Nickey wrote:
> Thank you Alan,
> I appreciate your help.
>
> The issue that I'm having is that split() doesn't seem to meet the need.
> The words such as "isn't" comes back as "isn't" rather then "isn" and "t".


Works for me.


py> "isn't".split("'")
['isn', 't']



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Steven