splitting a long string into a list

[Raphael]

What exactly seems to be the problem?


"ronrsr" <ronrsr at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>I have a single long string - I'd like to split it into a list of
> unique keywords. Sadly, the database wasn't designed to do this, so I
> must do this in Python - I'm having some trouble using the .split()
> function, it doesn't seem to do what I want it to - any ideas?
>
> thanks very much for your help.
>
> r-sr-