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I'm trying to essentially take a list of strings containg sentences such as:
sentence = ['Here is an example of what I am working with', 'But I need to change the format', 'to something more useable']
and convert it into the following:
word_list = ['Here', 'is', 'an', 'example', 'of', 'what', 'I', 'am',
'working', 'with', 'But', 'I', 'need', 'to', 'change', 'the format',
'to', 'something', 'more', 'useable']
I tried using this:
for item in sentence:
for word in item:
word_list.append(word)
I thought it would take each string and append each item of that string to word_list, however the output is something along the lines of:
word_list = ['H', 'e', 'r', 'e', ' ', 'i', 's' .....etc]
I know I am making a stupid mistake but I can't figure out why, can anyone help?
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How to Convert a String to a List of Words. Another way to convert a string to a list is by using the split() Python method. The split() method splits a string into a list, where each list item is each word that makes up the string. Each word will be an individual list item.
Description. Python string method split() returns a list of all the words in the string, using str as the separator (splits on all whitespace if left unspecified), optionally limiting the number of splits to num.
To convert a list to a string in one line, use either of the three methods: Use the ''. join(list) method to glue together all list elements to a single string. Use the list comprehension method [str(x) for x in lst] to convert all list elements to type string.
You need str.split() to split each string into words:
word_list = [word for line in sentence for word in line.split()]
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