How to split a string into a list?
text.split()This should be enough to store each word in a list. words is already a list of the words from the sentence, so there is no need for the loop.
Second, it might be a typo, but you have your loop a little messed up. If you really did want to use append, it would be:
words.append(word)not
word.append(words)
Splits the string in text on any consecutive runs of whitespace.
words = text.split() Split the string in text on delimiter: ",".
words = text.split(",") The words variable will be a list and contain the words from text split on the delimiter.
Return a list of the words in the string, using sep as the delimiter ... If sep is not specified or is None, a different splitting algorithm is applied: runs of consecutive whitespace are regarded as a single separator, and the result will contain no empty strings at the start or end if the string has leading or trailing whitespace.
>>> line="a sentence with a few words">>> line.split()['a', 'sentence', 'with', 'a', 'few', 'words']>>>