Efficiently split a string using multiple separators and retaining each separator?

Question

I need to split strings of data using each character from string.punctuation and string.whitespace as a separator.

Furthermore, I need for the

Answer 1

Try this:

import re
re.split('(['+re.escape(string.punctuation + string.whitespace)+']+)',"Now is the winter of our discontent")

Explanation from the Python documentation:

If capturing parentheses are used in pattern, then the text of all groups in the pattern are also returned as part of the resulting list.