Python, Store specific words to varibles in input

Question

The title says it all. Is there a way so I input

input("")

They input

dbs -U thebos123 -P pw.txt

Then store thebos123 into a variable but not the rest

Answer 1

If it's always the third word, you can get it this way.

line = raw_input("Some input please: ")  # or `input("Some...` in python 3
splitline = line.split(" ");
var = splitline[2]
print var

Test

python pyprog.py 
Some input please: dbs -U thebos123 -P pw.txt
thebos123