Disassembling strings and turning them into function parameters

[mercuryprey at gmail.com]

Hi,
I'm pretty new to Python, to programming overall...so how would I make
something where the user inputs multiple words in a string - like
"connect 123.123.123.123 21 user password" or similar, and then I can
split this string up to pass these arguments to a function like
ftp_connect(ip, port, user, pw) etc...? I have no idea how to "break"
the string up so I can get these out of it..


thanks for answers,
munin