Question

I have a variable that contains two words separated by a space, and I want to split it into two variables, one for each word. How would I do this?

As an example, my string would be hello there and I want to split it into the variables word1 and word2.

Answer 1

s = 'hello there'

word1, word2 = s.split()

will do this for you. E.g.,

In [63]: s = 'hello there'
In [64]: word1, word2 = s.split()
In [65]: print word1
hello
In [66]: print word2
there

split() is quite versatile, you can also specify other characters to split on. For more information on split() see http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html?highlight=split#str.split