How to do a Python split() on languages (like Chinese) that don't use whitespace as word separator?

Question

I want to split a sentence into a list of words.

For English and European languages this is easy, just use split()

>>> \"This is a sentence.         


        

Answer 1

Ok I figured it out.

What I need can be accomplished by simply using list():

>>> list(u"这是一个句子")
[u'\u8fd9', u'\u662f', u'\u4e00', u'\u4e2a', u'\u53e5', u'\u5b50']

Thanks for all your inputs.