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  1. import re
  2. user_sentence = "hello \t how are you?"
  3. user_sentenceSplit = []
  4. for x in re.finditer(r"[^\S ]|[\w']+|[.,!?;]",user_sentence):
  5. 	if x.group() == "\t": # if it is a tab, replace the value
  6. 		user_sentenceSplit.append("tab")
  7. 	else:  # else, push the match value
  8. 		user_sentenceSplit.append(x.group()) 
  9. print(user_sentenceSplit)
Success #stdin #stdout 0s 9024KB
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['hello', 'tab', 'how', 'are', 'you', '?']
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Python (cpython 2.7.16)
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9 years ago
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