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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) 
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The split() method splits a string into a list. You can specify the separator, default separator is any whitespace. Note: When maxsplit is specified, the list will contain the specified number of elements plus one.
The split() method of the string class is fairly straightforward. It splits the string, given a delimiter, and returns a list consisting of the elements split out from the string. By default, the delimiter is set to a whitespace - so if you omit the delimiter argument, your string will be split on each whitespace.
You can concatenate a list of strings into a single string with the string method, join() . Call the join() method from 'String to insert' and pass [List of strings] . If you use an empty string '' , [List of strings] is simply concatenated, and if you use a comma , , it makes a comma-delimited string.
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) 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.
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