Split string on whitespace in Python

Question

I'm looking for the Python equivalent of

String str = "many fancy word \nhello \thi"; 

String whiteSpaceRegex = "\\s"; 

String[] words = str.split(whiteSpaceRegex); 

Output:-

["many", "fancy", "word", "hello", "hi"]

Answer 1

To split string on whitespaces in Python you can use str.split() method without an argument splits on whitespace:

>>> "many fancy word \nhello \thi".split() 

['many', 'fancy', 'word', 'hello', 'hi']

To know more about this you can have a look at the following video tutorial:-