Split Strings based on White spaces, new lines and tab spaces in Python

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How to split a string based on Split Strings based on White spaces, new lines, and tab spaces and store them in a list in Python?

Possible duplicate of [Most elegant way to split a string?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/236129/most-elegant-way-to-split-a-string) — crenshaw-dev, Sep 26 '17 at 23:11
Possible duplicate of [Split string on whitespace in Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8113782/split-string-on-whitespace-in-python) — John Szakmeister, Sep 26 '17 at 23:14
Possible duplicate of [Split a string with unknown number of spaces as separator in Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4309684/split-a-string-with-unknown-number-of-spaces-as-separator-in-python) — eyllanesc, Sep 26 '17 at 23:15

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 26 '17 at 23:12

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I think what you want here is the .split() method on strings

>>> s = 'one two\tthree\nfour'
>>> s.split()
['one', 'two', 'three', 'four']

answered Sep 26 '17 at 23:12

John Szakmeister

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