title: Converting a String to a List of Words?
body: <p>I'm trying to convert a string to a list of words using python. I want to take something like the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>string = 'This is a string, with words!'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then convert to something like this :</p>
  
  <pre><code>list = ['This', 'is', 'a', 'string', 'with', 'words']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Notice the omission of punctuation and spaces. What would be the fastest way of going about this? </p>