How to split string in python using multiple delimeters

Question

I am using Python3 and wants to split the string into the multiple substrings. My code is shown below.

pr_list=re.split(r'\s{1,}', "the string, data,could have,  multiple   spaces".strip())

Above code works fine for single or multiple spaces which comes as a delimiter. But additionally, how can I split the same string using the another delimiter ie ',' as well?

For eg

"data,could" string shown above also split into "data" and "could" string.

Out put i am looking is just the words, with out spaces or ','.

['the', 'string', 'data', 'could', 'have', 'multiple', 'spaces']

Answer 1

Maybe you can use this r'[,]+'

import re

pr_list=re.split(r'[ ,]+', "the string, data,could have,  multiple   spaces".strip())

>>> pr_list
['the', 'string', 'data', 'could', 'have', 'multiple', 'spaces']