[Python] Unwanted ending empty string applying Python Regular Expression split method to test...

In the following Python regular expression, splitting words from a string into a list of substrings, I'm trying to avoid the empty string, '', on the output. Can I adjust the inputs of the regular expression to achieve this?

In [1]: import re
In [2]: re.split(r'[.!,;\s]\s*', 'To be or not! to be; that, is the question!')
Out [2]: ['To', 'be', 'or', 'not', 'to', 'be', 'that', 'is', 'the', 'question', '']


Resulted in unwanted empty string at end of list apply re.split method.

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