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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def getTamilWords( tweet ):
 """" word needs to all be in the same tamil language """

        tweet = TamilTweetParser.cleanupPunct( tweet );
        nonETwords = filter( lambda x: len(x) > 0 , re.split(r'\s+',tweet) );#|"+|\'+|#+
        tamilWords = filter( TamilTweetParser.isTamilPredicate, nonETwords );
        return tamilWords