Padding multiple character with space - python

Question

In perl, I can do the following with will pad my punctuation symbols with spaces:

s/([،;؛¿!\"\\])}»›”؟%٪°±©®।॥…])/ $1 /g;` 

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Answer 1

Python version of $1 is \1, but you should use regex substitution instead of simple string replace:

import re

p = ur'([،;؛¿!"\])}»›”؟%٪°±©®।॥…])'
text = u"this, is a sentence with weird» symbols… appearing everywhere¿"

print re.sub(p, ur' \1 ', text)

Outputs:

this , is a sentence with weird »  symbols …  appearing everywhere ¿