Splitting Strings on Any of Multiple Delimiters in Python

multiple-delimiters.py

text = "Python's built-in interfaces to operating-system services make it ideal for writing portable, maintainable system-administration tools and utilities (sometimes called shell tools)."
import re
fields = re.split(r'[;,.()?!\s]\s*', text)
fields = filter(None, fields)
print(fields)
#["Python's", 'built-in', 'interfaces', 'to', 'operating-system', 'services', 'make', 'it', 'ideal', 'for', 'writing', 'portable', 'maintainable', 'system-administration', 'tools', 'and', 'utilities', 'sometimes', 'called', 'shell', 'tools']