String to list conversion (2)

By default split splits at a whitespace character

With an additional argument, other characters can be used for splitting:

import string

aString = "Fruits: bananas, apples, pears"
aStringAsAList=string.split(aString,",")
print aStringAsAList
print aStringAsAList[2]

prints:

['Fruits: bananas', ' apples', ' pears']
 pears