1>>> teststr = "a v w ef sdv \n wef"
2>>> print teststr
3a v w ef sdv
4 wef
5>>> teststr.split()
6['a', 'v', 'w', 'ef', 'sdv', 'wef']
7>>> teststr.split(" ")
8['a', '', '', 'v', 'w', '', '', 'ef', 'sdv', '', '', '\n', '', '', 'wef']
9