>>> sentence = "Thomas Jefferson began building Monticello at the age of 26."
>>> tokens1 = re.split(r"([-\s.,;!?])+", sentence)
>>> tokens2 = re.split(r"[-\s.,;!?]+", sentence)
>>> tokens1 = ['Thomas', ' ', 'Jefferson', ' ', 'began', ' ', 'building', ' ', 'Monticello', ' ', 'at', ' ', 'the', ' ', 'age', ' ', 'of', ' ', '26', '.', '']
>>> tokens2 = ['Thomas', 'Jefferson', 'began', 'building', 'Monticello', 'at', 'the', 'age', 'of', '26', '']
Can you explain the purpose of (
and )
?