[Tutor] A string-manipulation question

[Alan Gilfoy]

Awesome! (I was hoping it would be a 1-line solution. :)
Thanks to batteries beign included, I don't necessarily need to worry  
about why and how .spilt() works. :)

Quoting Bob Gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu>:

> Alan Gilfoy wrote:
>> Hi. I want to learn how to "break down" a string into its component  
>>   words, and then process each word somehow.
>>
>> Is there a way in Python to separate a string into its component words.
>>
>> Like this:
>> "I would like to convert an English string (sentence) into Pig Latin."
>>
>> The Pig Latin conversion I think I can handle already (if not, I'll  
>>   cross that bridge when I come to it.) However, what I want help  
>> on  is  how to make each word of the string a separate value, or at  
>>  least make it able to index the string by word, as opposed to the   
>> standard method  of strings being indexed by character.
>>
>
> "I would like to convert an English string (sentence) into Pig   
> Latin.".split()
> yields:
> ["I", "would", "like", "to", "convert", "an", "English", "string",
> "(sentence)", "into", "Pig Latin."]
>
>
> -- 
> Bob Gailer
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