Split string based on a regular expression

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By using (,), you are capturing the group, if you simply remove them you will not have this problem.

>>> str1 = "a    b     c      d"
>>> re.split(" +", str1)
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']

However there is no need for regex, str.split without any delimiter specified will split this by whitespace for you. This would be the best way in this case.

>>> str1.split()
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']

If you really wanted regex you can use this ('\s' represents whitespace and it’s clearer):

>>> re.split("\s+", str1)
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']

or you can find all non-whitespace characters

>>> re.findall(r'\S+',str1)
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']

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