split string by arbitrary number of white spaces

Question

I\'m trying to find the most pythonic way to split a string like

\"some words in a string\"

into single words. string.split(\' \')

Answer 1

>>> a = "some words in a string"
>>> a.split(" ")
['some', 'words', 'in', 'a', 'string']

split parameter is not included in the result, so i guess theres something more about your string. otherwise, it should work

if you have more than one whitespace just use split() without parameters

>>> a = "some words in a string     "
>>> a.split()
['some', 'words', 'in', 'a', 'string']
>>> a.split(" ")
['some', 'words', 'in', 'a', 'string', '', '', '', '', '']

or it will just split a by single whitespaces