[Tutor] How to print certain elements

[spir]

On 01/21/2014 07:18 AM, Adriansanchez wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I am newbie to Python and programming in general. My question is, given a list:
> X=['washington','adams','jefferson','madison','monroe']
> And a string:
> Y='washington,adams,jefferson,madison,monroe'

Side note: you can generate X automatically from Y:

X = Y.split(",")
print(X)

split (as name says) splits a string into a list of substrings. The parameter is 
the separator separating the substrings. In standard (default value), meaning if 
you don't indicate a separator, python uses any whitespace (space, tab, newline) 
possibly repeted.

Denis