The Python **`split()` method** takes a specified delimiter, breaks the string at that point, and returns that list of strings.

# Syntax
```python
str.split(separator, maxsplit)
```

# Parameters

**Delimiter (or separator):** A string splits at this specified delimiter. 

> Note: white space is a default separator here.

**Maxsplit:** Specifies the maximum number of times that the string should be split.

**Output:** A list of strings. 

# Code
The following code gives an example of splitting strings in python. All three examples, given in the code snippet, output two strings, ‘hello’ and ‘world’.

text = 'hello world'
# Splits at space 
print(text.split()) 

text = 'hello, world'
# Splits at ',' 
print(text.split(', ')) 

text = 'hello:world'
# Splitting at ':' 
print(text.split(':')) 


How to execute a string split() function in Python

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