how to split each word in a string in a separate list

Question

How would I go about splitting each word in a string in a separate string? if I, for example, have this code

s = "It sure is a nice day today"
l = list(s)

This would return ['I', 't', ' ', 's', 'u', 'r', 'e', ' ', 'i', 's', ' ', 'a', ' ', 'n', 'i', 'c', 'e', ' ', 'd', 'a', 'y', ' ', 't', 'o', 'd', 'a', 'y'] instead, I's like to have it return seperate lists like so:

['I', 't']
['s', 'u', 'r', 'e']
['i', 's']
['a']
['n', 'i', 'c', 'e']
['d', 'a', 'y']
['t', 'o', 'd', 'a', 'y']

And if possible store them in seperate lists instead of simply printing them.

Answer 1

Well this looks like a list of lists, since you need some datastructure to store these sublist in.

For example:

s = "It sure is a nice day today"
result = [list(si) for si in s.split()]

This then generates:

>>> result = [list(si) for si in s.split()]
>>> result
[['I', 't'], ['s', 'u', 'r', 'e'], ['i', 's'], ['a'], ['n', 'i', 'c', 'e'], ['d', 'a', 'y'], ['t', 'o', 'd', 'a', 'y']]

Of course you can also store these sublists in a tuple, etc. But somehow you will have to wrap these into a collection that can store lists.