
# A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters used to specify the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text or other data streams. An example of a delimiter is the comma character, which acts as a field delimiter in a sequence of comma-separated values.

import re  
text = 'The quick brown\nfox jumps*over the lazy dog.'  
print(re.split('; |, |\*|\n',text)) 