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How do I split on all nonalphanumeric characters, EXCEPT the apostrophe?
re.split('\W+',text)
works, but will also split on apostrophes. How do I add an exception to this rule?
Thanks!
Try this:
Note the
wis now lowercase, because it represents all alphanumeric characters (note that that includes the underscore). The character class[^\w']refers to anything that’s not (^) either alphanumeric (\w) or an apostrophe.