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

if str longer than 30 then take 27 chars and add '...' at the end
otherwise return str

str='中文2018-2020年一区6、8、10、12号楼_「工程建设文档102332号」'
result = len(list(str)) >= 30 and ''.join(list(str)[:27]) + '...' or str