splitting a string into list python code example

Example 1: split string python

file='/home/folder/subfolder/my_file.txt'
file_name=file.split('/')[-1].split('.')[0]

Example 2: split string to list

>>> list("Word to Split")
['W', 'o', 'r', 'd', ' ', 't', 'o', ' ', 'S', 'p', 'l', 'i', 't']