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"]