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How do I split a string into a list of words?

How do I split a sentence and store each word in a list? e.g.

"these are words"   ⟶   ["these", "are", "words"]

To split on other delimiters, see Split a string by a delimiter in python.

To split into individual characters, see How do I split a string into a list of characters?.

Solution

  • Given a string sentence, this stores each word in a list called words:

    words = sentence.split()