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separate a string in python

foo = "A B C D"
bar = "E-F-G-H"

# the split() function will return a list
foo_list = foo.split()
# if you give no arguments, it will separate by whitespaces by default
# ["A", "B", "C", "D"]

bar_list = bar.split("-", 3)
# you can specify the maximum amount of elements the split() function will output
# ["E", "F", "G"]
Posted by: Guest on May-05-2020
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python split

>>> '1,2,3'.split(',')
['1', '2', '3']
>>> '1,2,3'.split(',', maxsplit=1)
['1', '2,3']
>>> '1,2,,3,'.split(',')
['1', '2', '', '3', '']
Posted by: Guest on November-18-2020

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