string.split() - string

             
The method split() returns a list of all the words in the string, using str as the separator (splits on all whitespace if left unspecified), optionally limiting the number of splits to num.


str -- This is any delimeter, by default it is space.
num -- this is number of lines to be made

Syntax

str.split(str="", num=string.count(str)).

Example

#!/usr/bin/python

str = "Line1-abcdef \nLine2-abc \nLine4-abcd";
print str.split( )
print str.split(' ', 1 )

Output / Return Value

When we run above program, it produces following result −


['Line1-abcdef', 'Line2-abc', 'Line4-abcd']
['Line1-abcdef', '
Line2-abc 
Line4-abcd']

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