Separate Address number and name

[John Gordon]

In <9fe1b47b-65ce-4063-9188-07b81cdba49f at googlegroups.com> Shane Konings <shane.konings at gmail.com> writes:

> I have the following sample from a data set and I am looking to split the address number and name into separate headings as seen below.

> FarmID	Address
> 1	1067 Niagara Stone
> 2	4260 Mountainview
> 3	25 Hunter
> 4	1091 Hutchinson
> 5	5172 Green Lane
> 6	500 Glenridge
> 7	471 Foss
> 8	758 Niagara Stone
> 9	3836 Main
> 10	1025 York


> FarmID	AddressNum    AddressName
> 1	1067          Niagara Stone
> 2	4260          Mountainview
> 3	25            Hunter
> 4	1091          Hutchinson
> 5	5172          Green Lane
> 6	500           Glenridge
> 7	471           Foss
> 8	758           Niagara Stone
> 9	3836          Main
> 10	1025          York

> I have struggled with this for a while and know there must be a simple
> method to achieve this result.

for line in input_lines:
    fields = line.split()
    farm_id = fields[0]
    address_num = fields[1]
    address_name = ' '.join(fields[2:])

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