How to split a string into a list?

Question

I want my Python function to split a sentence (input) and store each word in a list. My current code splits the sentence, but does not store the words as a list. How do I do that?

def split_line(text):      # split the text     words = text.split()      # for each word in the line:     for word in words:          # print the word         print(words) 

Answer 1

text.split() 

This should be enough to store each word in a list. words is already a list of the words from the sentence, so there is no need for the loop.

Second, it might be a typo, but you have your loop a little messed up. If you really did want to use append, it would be:

words.append(word) 

not

word.append(words) 

Answer 2

Splits the string in text on any consecutive runs of whitespace.

words = text.split()       

Split the string in text on delimiter: ",".

words = text.split(",")    

The words variable will be a list and contain the words from text split on the delimiter.