Python in a Nutshell

Name

split

Synopsis

                     s.split(sep=None,maxsplit=sys.maxint)

Returns a list L of up to maxsplit +1 strings. Each item of L is a “word” from s, where string sep separates words. When s has more than maxsplit words, the last item of L is the substring of s that follows the first maxsplit words. When sep is None, any string of whitespace separates words (e.g., 'four score and seven years ago'.split(None,3) is ['four', 'score', 'and', 'seven years ago']).