Python – How to Split a String into a List of Words

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How do I split a sentence and store each word in a list? e.g.

"these are words"   ⟶   ["these", "are", "words"]

Given a string sentence, this stores each word in a list called words:

words = sentence.split()

I think this is the simplest way for anyone else stumbling on this post given the late response:

>>> string = 'This is a string, with words!'
>>> string.split()
['This', 'is', 'a', 'string,', 'with', 'words!']