Split a string only by first space in python

Just pass the count as second parameter to str.split function.

>>> s = "238 NEO Sports"
>>> s.split(" ", 1)
['238', 'NEO Sports']

RTFM: str.split(sep=None, maxsplit=-1)

>>> "238 NEO Sports".split(None, 1)
['238', 'NEO Sports']