.split(), .splitlines(), .rsplit()
.split(), .splitlines(), .rsplit()
.split(), .splitlines(), .rsplit()
.split()
- if no parameter is given, the string is split on each space.
- if a parameter is given, for example ",", the string will be split in to a list on each comma
.splitlines()
- will split a string into a list based on the EOL "\n" character
.rsplit()
- right split --
.split(), .splitlines(), .rsplit() Syntax
.split(), .splitlines(), .rsplit() Syntax
list_variable = string_variable.split(sep)
sep is an optional parameter, if a character is given, the string_variable will be split on that character
.split(), .splitlines(), .rsplit() Examples
.split(), .splitlines(), .rsplit() Examples
.split() Example:
data before :
This is a file with many words
and many lines
data = data.split()
data after
['This', 'is', 'a', 'file', 'with', 'many', 'words', 'and', 'many', 'lines']
Notice: the data started as a string and was converted into a list