What is the best way to create a string array in python?

Question

I\'m relatively new to Python and it\'s libraries and I was wondering how I might create a string array with a preset size. It\'s easy in java but I was wondering how I might do

Answer 1

def _remove_regex(input_text, regex_pattern):
    findregs = re.finditer(regex_pattern, input_text) 
    for i in findregs: 
        input_text = re.sub(i.group().strip(), '', input_text)
    return input_text

regex_pattern = r"\buntil\b|\bcan\b|\bboat\b"
_remove_regex("row and row and row your boat until you can row no more", regex_pattern)

\w means that it matches word characters, a|b means match either a or b, \b represents a word boundary