best split tokens?

[Tim Chase]

> Let's say, for instance, that one was programming a spell checker or
> some other function where the contents of a string from a text-editor's
> text box needed to be split so that the resulting array has each word
> as an element.  Is there a shortcut to do this and, if not, what's the
> best and most efficient token group for the split function to achieve
> this?


Do you mean like

	for word in string_from_text_box.split():
		spell_check(word)

Every string has a split() method which, by default, splits the 
string at runs of whitespace.

 >>> help("".split)

will give you more info.

-tkc