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

Here is my go at a split with multiple deliminaters:

def msplit( str, delims ):
  w = ''
  for z in str:
    if z not in delims:
        w += z
    else:
        if len(w) > 0 :
            yield w
        w = ''
  if len(w) > 0 :
    yield w