string.split() will break and split the string on the argument passed and return all the parts in a list. The list will not include the splitting character.

string.split('","') will break and split the string on every "," and return all the broken parts in a list excluding ","

			
					print 'Woohoo","There you are'.split(r'","')

			
	

			
	
			

		
	

			
					['Woohoo', 'There you are']

			
	

			
	
			

		
	

You can specify how many parts you want to split your string into by passing an additional parameter

• Split on all commas and split into n + 1 parts, where n is the number of commas

			
					print 'Man,From,Mars'.split(',')

			
	

			
	
			

		
	

The Above Outputs

			
					['Man', 'From', 'Mars]

			
	

			
	
			

		
	

• Split on the first comma and only split into 2 parts.

			
					print 'Man,From,Mars'.split(',',1)

			
	

			
	
			

		
	

The Above Outputs

			
					['Man', 'From Mars]

			
	

			
	
			

		
	

• Here I used ' ' as split, so every time a character appears ' ', it splits the string into a new list item.

			
					'Hi Im from Neptune'.split(' ')

			
	

			
	
			

		
	

The Above Outputs

			
					['Hi', 'Im', 'from', 'Neptune']