Split Strings into words with multiple word boundary delimiters

Question

I think what I want to do is a fairly common task but I\'ve found no reference on the web. I have text with punctuation, and I want a list of the words.

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Answer 1

Instead of using a re module function re.split you can achieve the same result using the series.str.split method of pandas.

First, create a series with the above string and then apply the method to the series.

thestring = pd.Series("Hey, you - what are you doing here!?") thestring.str.split(pat = ',|-')

parameter pat takes the delimiters and returns the split string as an array. Here the two delimiters are passed using a | (or operator). The output is as follows:

[Hey, you , what are you doing here!?]