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

Heres my take on it....

def split_string(source,splitlist):
    splits = frozenset(splitlist)
    l = []
    s1 = ""
    for c in source:
        if c in splits:
            if s1:
                l.append(s1)
                s1 = ""
        else:
            print s1
            s1 = s1 + c
    if s1:
        l.append(s1)
    return l

>>>out = split_string("First Name,Last Name,Street Address,City,State,Zip Code",",")
>>>print out
>>>['First Name', 'Last Name', 'Street Address', 'City', 'State', 'Zip Code']