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

Create a function that takes as input two strings (the source string to be split and the splitlist string of delimiters) and outputs a list of split words:

def split_string(source, splitlist):
    output = []  # output list of cleaned words
    atsplit = True
    for char in source:
        if char in splitlist:
            atsplit = True
        else:
            if atsplit:
                output.append(char)  # append new word after split
                atsplit = False
            else: 
                output[-1] = output[-1] + char  # continue copying characters until next split
    return output