How to get rid of periods when splitting string into a list of words using Python?

Question

s = 'I'm all right.'
s.split()

["I'm", "all", "right."]

Is there a convenient way to get rid of the periods when splitting a string into a list of words? For example, how can I obtain

["I'm", "all", "right"]

in the example above? I want to retain other punctuations such as en dash in right-out-of-school and single quote in I've been there.

Assuming that you want the split working across multiple sentences, just do ```re.sub('\.\s*', ' ', s).split()``` where re is regex library — Ehtesham Siddiqui, Dec 28 '20 at 12:56
@EhteshamSiddiqui Thank you! This is exactly what I'm looking for! You can make it an answer if you want, then I'll accept it. — Paw in Data, Dec 28 '20 at 12:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 28 '20 at 12:59

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You can use str.replace() before you split.

s = 'I\'m all right.'
out = s.replace('.', '').split()

print(out)

Output:

["I'm", 'all', 'right']

answered Dec 28 '20 at 12:59

solid.py

@paw-in-data Does my answer work for you, or do you prefer the `re.sub()` better? – solid.py Dec 28 '20 at 13:02

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