s.split() on multiple separators

Hello everyone,

OK, so I want to split a string c into words using several different
separators from a list (dels).

I can do this the following C-like way:

c=' abcde abc cba fdsa bcd '.split()
dels='ce '
for j in dels:
cp=[]
for i in xrange(0,len(c)-1):
cp.extend(c[i].split(j))
c=cp


c
['ab', 'd', '', 'ab', '', '']

But. Surely there is a more Pythonic way to do this?

I cannot do this:

for i in dels:
c=[x.split(i) for x in c]

because x.split(i) is a list.

.