That is a very creative solution! Thank you Scott.
> Or, for faster per-repetition (blending in to your use-case): > > import string > SEP = string.maketrans('abc \t', ' ') > ... > parts = 'whatever, abalone dudes'.translate(SEP).split() > print parts > > ['wh', 'tever,', 'lone', 'dudes'] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list