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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"]
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file='/home/folder/subfolder/my_file.txt'
file_name=file.split('/')[-1].split('.')[0]
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>>> a='Beautiful, is; better*than\nugly'
>>> import re
>>> re.split('; |, |\*|\n',a)
['Beautiful', 'is', 'better', 'than', 'ugly']
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>>> "MATCHES__STRING".split("__")
['MATCHES', 'STRING']
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sample_str = "Help developers by donating!"
txt.split(' ')