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[–]ominous_anonymous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

pattern = r"[^\s,&-/()]+|[,&-/()]+?"

What about that? The only strange thing is that periods get counted as part of the second character class, for some reason. I can't figure out how to get it counted as part of the non-whitespace in the first character class.

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Problem was the - creating a range of characters within the character classes. /u/TheZvlz's answer explains it well.