Split strings

You've learned how to do some useful operations with strings, like concatenating and combining. There’s one more operation — splitting — that will help you work more powerfully with strings.

Key ideas

• Using split() method to convert string into a list

Video: Splitting strings

String Split Example

As you saw in the video, the string split function divides a string into a list of parts of that string, based on a separator.

groceries = "rice,beans,oil,peppers,meat,greens"
groceries_list = groceries.split(",")
print(groceries_list) #=> ['rice', 'beans', 'oil', 'peppers', 'meat', 'greens']

Exploration

Python has another string function to go the other direction: from a list of strings to a single string, with a separator.

Have you seen that function before? Can you find it by searching the web or the Python docs?