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

First of all, always use re.compile() before performing any RegEx operation in a loop because it works faster than normal operation.

so for your problem first compile the pattern and then perform action on it.

import re
DATA = "Hey, you - what are you doing here!?"
reg_tok = re.compile("[\w']+")
print reg_tok.findall(DATA)