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

The list() is the answer for Chinese only sentence. For those hybrid English/Chines in most of case. It answered at hybrid-split, just copy answer from Winter as below.

def spliteKeyWord(str):
    regex = r"[\u4e00-\ufaff]|[0-9]+|[a-zA-Z]+\'*[a-z]*"
    matches = re.findall(regex, str, re.UNICODE)
    return matches