title: Match words that don't start with a certain letter using regex
body: <p>I am learning regex but have not been able to find the right regex in python for selecting characters that start with a particular alphabet.</p>
  
  <p>Example below</p>
  
  <pre><code>text='this is a test'
  match=re.findall('(?!t)\w*',text)
  
  # match returns
  ['his', '', 'is', '', 'a', '', 'est', '']
  
  match=re.findall('[^t]\w+',text)
  
  # match
  ['his', ' is', ' a', ' test']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Expected : <code>['is','a']</code></p>