What does line.split do?

Question

I'm wondering what line.split does because I've been told it will help my code. I'm trying to make a list consisting of the current data stored inside of an external text file. My code goes as follows:

highscores = []

highscorefile = open('highscores.txt','r')
cont = highscorefile.readlines()
for line in cont:
    highscores.append(line)
highscorefile.close()
print(highscores)

I've been told that line.split will help sort it but I first need to figure out what it does.

Current output:

['1,3\n', '3,4\n', '6,5\n', '12,10']

You might want to use [strip()](https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.strip) as well. — Fred Larson, Jan 16 '20 at 15:46
Does this answer your question? [How to split a string into a list?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/743806/how-to-split-a-string-into-a-list) — Tomerikoo, Jan 16 '20 at 15:49
I would suggest using a context manager to handle that file, and iterating over the file object directly. — AMC, Jan 16 '20 at 16:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 16 '20 at 15:40

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split() method returns a list of strings after breaking the given string by the specified separator.

word = 'geeks, for, geeks, pawan'

maxsplit: 0

print(word.split(', ', 0))

Output

['geeks, for, geeks, pawan']

answered Jan 16 '20 at 15:40

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 16 '20 at 15:41

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split is a method used on strings. It splits a string by a seperator. For example,

'hello world how are you'.split(' ') = ['hello', 'world', 'how', 'are', 'you']

answered Jan 16 '20 at 15:41

cmxu

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What does line.split do?

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maxsplit: 0