Escape Codes

text = 'Jersey number of Cristiano Ronaldo is 7, his twitter account is @Cristiano. '

patterns=[ r'\d+', # sequence of digits
           r'\D+', # sequence of non-digits
           r'\s+', # sequence of whitespace
           r'\S+', # sequence of non-whitespace
           r'\w+', # alphanumeric characters
           r'\W+', # non-alphanumeric
          ]

multi_re_find(patterns,text)