Parsing a tweet to extract hashtags into an array

Question

I am having a heck of a time taking the information in a tweet including hashtags, and pulling each hashtag into an array using Python. I am embarrassed to even put what I

Answer 1

The best Twitter hashtag regular expression:

import re
text = "#promovolt #1st # promovolt #123"
re.findall(r'\B#\w*[a-zA-Z]+\w*', text)

>>> ['#promovolt', '#1st']