import string


def extract_words(text):
    """Return the words in a tweet, not including punctuation.
    >>> extract_words('anything else.....not my job')
    ['anything', 'else', 'not', 'my', 'job']
    >>> extract_words('i love my job. #winning')
    ['i', 'love', 'my', 'job', 'winning']
    >>> extract_words('make justin # 1 by tweeting #vma #justinbieber :)')
    ['make', 'justin', 'by', 'tweeting', 'vma', 'justinbieber']
    >>> extract_words("paperclips! they're so awesome, cool, & useful!")
    ['paperclips', 'they', 're', 'so', 'awesome', 'cool', 'useful']
    """
    s = ""
    c = ''
    for i in text:
        if i not in string.ascii_letters:
            i = ' '
        s += i
    return s.split()