In this post we will touch base on splitting strings in Python, the term string in Python refers to a sequence of Unicode characters whether that be a collection of letters from the alphabet or a series of numbers.
An example of a string can be seen below.
someString = "Welcome to Scriptopia!"The splitting of a string would mean to break it down in to smaller chunks in the form of a list. Using the split() method you can define your separator i.e. split a string each time a full stop is found. If no separator is defined the split method will default to every instance of whitespace found.
The split() method will always return a list, if you are interested in iterating a list click here.
In the snippet of code below a separator is not defined.
someString = "Welcome to Scriptopia!"
split = someString.split()
print(split)The above would output the following.
['Welcome', 'to', 'Scriptopia!']
>>> In the snippet of code below we will define our separator as a comma.
someString = "Welcome to Scriptopia, subscribe for more."
split = someString.split(", ")
print(split)The above would output the following.
['Welcome to Scriptopia', 'subscribe for more.']
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