Luckily, Python has this built-in :)
import re
re.split('; |, ',str)
Update:
Following your comment:
>>> a='Beautiful, is; better*than
ugly'
>>> import re
>>> re.split('; |, |*|
',a)
['Beautiful', 'is', 'better', 'than', 'ugly']
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