How to split string into words that do not contain whitespaces in python?

Question

My string is:

"This     is a      string"

I want to turn it into a list:

["This", "is", "a", "string"]

I use the split(" ") method, but it adds whitespaces as list elements. Please help,

Best Regards

Answer 1

>>> v="This is a  string"

>>> v.split()
['This', 'is', 'a', 'string']

just use split().