[Tutor] The better Python approach

[Robert Berman]

Good Morning,

Given a string consisting of numbers separated by spaces such as '1234 
5678 1 233 476'. I can see I have two obvious choices to extract or 
parse out the numbers. The first relying on iteration so that as I 
search for a blank, I build a substring of all characters found before 
the space and then, once the space is found, I can then use the int(n) 
function to determine the number.  From my C++ background, that is the 
approach that seems not only most natural but also most 
efficient......but....the rules of Python are different and I easily see 
that I can also search for the first blank, then using the character 
count, I can use the slice operation to get the characters. Of even 
further interest I see a string built-in function called split which, I 
think, will return all the distinct character sub strings for me.

My question is what is the most correct python oriented solution for 
extracting those substrings?

Thanks,


Robert Berman