How to split a list of text into a list of words Python

Question

I have this list:

["This is a set of words and it is not correct"]

I want to make it like this:

["This", "Is", "A"] ...

How do I do this

Do you want to split on arbitrary whitespace or just a single `" "`? — erip, Jun 14 '16 at 14:15
Please google this : "split a sentence into words" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/743806/split-string-into-a-list-in-python — 2rd_7, Jun 14 '16 at 14:16

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 14 '16 at 14:17

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"This is a set of words and it is not correct".title().split()

output:

['This', 'Is', 'A', 'Set', 'Of', 'Words', 'And', 'It', 'Is', 'Not', 'Correct']

answered Jun 14 '16 at 14:17

khelili miliana

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`str.title` is pretty cute. – erip Jun 15 '16 at 16:08

Rahul K P · Answer 2 · 2016-06-14T14:26:52.613

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You can do like this.

a = "This is a set of words and it is not correct"
[i.capitalize() for i in a.split()]

if input is list as you mentioned in your question.

a = ["This is a set of words and it is not correct"]
[i.capitalize() for i in a[0].split()]

Output

['This', 'Is', 'A', 'Set', 'Of', 'Words', 'And', 'It', 'Is', 'Not', 'Correct']

edited Jun 14 '16 at 14:26

answered Jun 14 '16 at 14:14

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 14 '16 at 14:15

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Use the split() method

>>> foo = ["This is a set of words and it is not correct"]
>>> foo[0].split()
['This', 'is', 'a', 'set', 'of', 'words', 'and', 'it', 'is', 'not', 'correct']

answered Jun 14 '16 at 14:15

Bernardo Meurer

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How to split a list of text into a list of words Python

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