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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"]
N
sentence = 'Hello world a b c'
split_sentence = sentence.split(' ')
print(split_sentence)
N
l = list('abcd') # ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
l = map(None, 'abcd') # ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
l = [i for i in 'abcd'] # ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
import re # importing regular expression module
l = re.findall('.', 'abcd')
print(l) # ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
N
>>> "MATCHES__STRING".split("__")
['MATCHES', 'STRING']