This lesson covers splitting strings using the .split()
method. .split()
has optional parameters that allow you to fine tune how strings are split. You’ll see how to use a bare call to .split()
to cut out whitespace from a string and get a list of words:
>>> 'this is my string'.split()
['this', 'is', 'my', 'string']
You’ll also learn how to specify separators, and also limit the number of splits in calls to split()
using the maxsplit
parameter:
>>> s = "this is my string"
>>> s.split(maxsplit=1)
['this', 'is my string']