Andreu wrote: > I want to split a sentence and assign each word to a variable. > In Ruby I can do it as: > > v1,v2,v3,v4,v5 = str1.split > > Which will be the Python equivalent ? Thanks. That would be: str1 = "The quick brown fox jumps" v1, v2, v3, v4, v5 = str1.split () TJG