get words from string python code example

Example 1: how to get words from a string in python

sentence = "How are you feeling today"
sentence = sentence.split() # this returns list of words
# output = ["How", "are", "you", "feeling", "today"]

Example 2: extract first word from string in column into a list in python

# Split a phrase in all rows of a column and make a list of the first word

list_data = [dataset_name.column_name.str.split(' ')[index][0]
             for index in range(0, len(dataset_name))]
print(list_data)