Split a string only by first space in python

Question

I have string for example: \"238 NEO Sports\". I want to split this string only at the first space. The output should be [\"238\",\"NEO S

Answer 1

Just pass the count as second parameter to str.split function.

>>> s = "238 NEO Sports"
>>> s.split(" ", 1)
['238', 'NEO Sports']