Splitting text

Split a string into words:
string.split(line, splitstring)
Split wrt a regular expression:
>>> re.split(r"\s+", "some    words   in a text")
['some', 'words', 'in', 'a', 'text']
Notice the effect of this:
>>> re.split(r" ", "some    words   in a text")
['some', '', '', '', 'words', '', '', 
 'in', 'a', 'text']

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