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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 split(text: str) -> List[str]: """Split a text into a list of tokens. :param text: the text to split :return: tokens """

    return [word for word in SEPARATOR.split(text) if word.strip(' \t')]