How to split string in Python

The built-in function split() can be used to split string in Python. This method will return the list of strings after splitting the string by the specified separator.

Syntax: string.split(separator[, maxlimit])

• separator – an optional delimiter. The string splits at the specified separator. The default value of split if any whitespace.
• maxlimit – optional. Defines the maximum number of splits. The default value is -1, which is no limit to splits.

Now let’s take a look at some examples and understand how this works.

#Example:

str = 'Hello World! Pythonpoint is awesome'

#splits at space.default case
print(str.split())

#splits at '!'
print(str.split('!'))

#maxlimit is 4
print(str.split(' ', 4))

#maxlimit is 3
print(str.split(' ', 3))

Output:

['Hello', 'World!', 'Pythonpoint', 'is', 'awesome']
['Hello World', ' Pythonpoint is awesome']
['Hello', 'World!', 'Pythonpoint', 'is', 'awesome']
['Hello', 'World!', 'Pythonpoint', 'is awesome']