Print one word from a string in python

Question

How can i print only certain words from a string in python ? lets say i want to print only the 3rd word (which is a number) and the 10th one

while the text length ma

Answer 1

mystring = "You have 15 new messages and the size is 32000"
parts = mystring.split(' ')
message_count = int(parts[2])
message_size = int(parts[9])