Convert a space delimited string to list

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i have a string like this    states    Alaska Alabama Arkansas American Samoa Arizona California Colorado    and I want to split it into a list like this  states    Alaska  Alabama  Arkansas  American  Samoa          I am new in python   Help me  please   -    edit  I need to make a random choice from states and make it like the variable

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states split   will return    Alaska     Alabama     Arkansas     American     Samoa     Arizona     California     Colorado     If you need one random from them  then you have to use the random module   import random  states              random state   random choice states split

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states    Alaska Alabama Arkansas American Samoa Arizona California Colorado  states list   states split

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Use string s split   method   states split

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try   states split     it returns the list    Alaska     Alabama     Arkansas     American     Samoa     Arizona     California     Colorado     and this returns the random element of the list  import random random choice states split      split statement parses the string and returns the list  by default it s divided into the list by spaces  if you specify the string it s divided by this string  so for example  states split  Ari     returns     Alaska Alabama Arkansas American Samoa     zona California Colorado     Btw  list is in python interpretated with    brackets instead of    brackets     brackets are used for dictionaries  you can read more on this here  I see you are probably new to python  so I d give you some advice how to use python s great documentation  Almost everything you need can be found here You can use also python included documentation  open python console and write help   If you don t know what to do with some object  I d install ipython  write statement and press Tab  great tool which helps you with interacting with the language  I just wrote this here to show that python is great tool also because it s great documentation and it s really powerful to know this

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states list   states split        In regards to your edit   from random import choice random state   choice states list

[python] Convert a space delimited string to list

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