How to get the first word in the string

Question

text is :

WYATT    - Ranked # 855 with    0.006   %
XAVIER   - Ranked # 587 with    0.013   %
YONG     - Ranked # 921 with    0.006   %
YOUNG    - Ranked # 8         


        

Answer 1

Regex is unnecessary for this. Just use some_string.split(' ', 1)[0] or some_string.partition(' ')[0].