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;` 

In

Answer 1

Use the format function, and insert a unicode string:

p = u'،;؛¿!"\])}»›”؟%٪°±©®।॥…'
text = u"this, is a sentence with weird» symbols… appearing everywhere¿"
for i in p:
    text = text.replace(i, u' {} '.format(i))

print(text)

Output

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