The 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.
Syntax
str.split(str=””, num=string.count(str)).
Parameters
str — This is any delimeter, by default it is space.
num — This is number of lines to be made.
Example
!/usr/bin/python
str = “Linel-abcdef \nLine2-abc \nLine4-abcd”;
print str.split( ); print str.split(‘ 1 );
OUTPUT
[‘Linel-abcdef’, ‘Line2-abc’, ‘Line4-abcd’]
[‘Linel-abcdef’, ‘\nLine2-abc \nLine4-abcd’]
