Splitting a person's name into forename and surname

Question

ok so basically I am asking the question of their name I want this to be one input rather than Forename and Surname.

Now is there any way of splitting this name? and

Answer 1

An easy way to do exactly what you asked in python is

name = "Thomas Winter"
LastName = name.split()[1]

(note the parantheses on the function call split.)

split() creates a list where each element is from your original string, delimited by whitespace. You can now grab the second element using name.split()[1] or the last element using name.split()[-1]

However, as others said, unless you're SURE you're just getting a string like "First_Name Last_Name", there are a lot more issues involved.