def _run_split_on_punc(self, text):
    """Splits punctuation on a piece of text."""
    chars = list(text)
    i = 0
    start_new_word = True
    output = []
    while i < len(chars):
      char = chars[i]
      if _is_punctuation(char):
        output.append([char])
        start_new_word = True
      else:
        if start_new_word:
          output.append([])
        start_new_word = False
        output[-1].append(char)
      i += 1

    return ["".join(x) for x in output]
Splits punctuation on a piece of text.
tokenization.py