How to split strings inside a list by whitespace characters

Question

So stdin returns a string of text into a list, and multiple lines of text are all list elements. How do you split them all into single words?

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Answer 1

You could just do:

words = str(list).split()

So you turn the list into a string then split it by a space bar. Then you can remove the /n's by doing:

words.replace("/n", "")

Or if you want to do it in one line:

words = str(str(str(list).split()).replace("/n", "")).split()

Just saying this may not work in python 2