Will split 'string' using all of the additional arguments to multisplit.

multisplit.py

def multisplit(string, *args):
    """
    Will split 'string' using all of the additional arguments to multisplit.

    Will then filter out any instances of empty strings in the resultant list

    For example
        result = multisplit("a, b c,d    e", ",", " ")  # Split on both commas and spaces

        result == ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e"]

    :param string: (str) A string to split
    :param args: An arbitrary number of

    :return: (list) A list of the tokens in 'string', in order, split on all the arguments to multisplit.
    """
    result = []

    if len(args) > 0:
        if not all(map(lambda x: isinstance(x, basestring), args)):
            raise TypeError("All arguments must be instances of <basestring>.")

        # Do the first split alone
        result = string.split(args[0])

        # Are there more characters?
        if len(args) > 1:
            for char in args[1:]:
                iter_result = []

                for token in result:
                    arr = token.split(char)

                    iter_result.extend(arr)

                result = iter_result

        result = filter(lambda x: x != "", result)

    return result