split(): Divide Strings into Substrings by Delimiter

my_str.split(delimiter,max_value) 

my_list="'Alex','Ronald','John'"
my_list=my_list.split(',')
print(my_list)

my_list="'Alex','Ronald','John'"
my_list=my_list.split(',',1)
print(my_list)

["'Alex'", "'Ronald'", "'John'"]
["'Alex'", "'Ronald','John'"]

["'Alex'", "'Ronald'", "'John'"]
["'Alex','Ronald'", "'John'"]

Example 1: Basic split() Usage

text = "apple orange banana"
fruits = text.split()
print(fruits)

['apple', 'orange', 'banana']

Example 2: Custom Delimiter

data = "name,age,location"
values = data.split(',')
print(values)

['name', 'age', 'location']

Example 3: Using maxsplit

text = "apple-orange-banana-pear"
result = text.split('-', 2)
print(result)

['apple', 'orange', 'banana-pear']

Example 4: Split with rsplit() for Right Splits

text = "apple-orange-banana-pear"
result = text.rsplit('-', 2)
print(result)

['apple-orange', 'banana', 'pear']

Example 5: Splitting Each Word from User Input

phrase = input("Enter a phrase: ")
words = phrase.split()
print("Words:", words)

Use Cases for split()

• Data Parsing: Split data read from files or user input.
• Data Processing: Transform strings to lists for iteration or filtering.
• Working with CSV Data: Manually parse CSV rows if a CSV parser isn't used.

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