split string by arbitrary number of white spaces

Question

I\'m trying to find the most pythonic way to split a string like

\"some words in a string\"

into single words. string.split(\' \')

Answer 1

The most Pythonic and correct ways is to just not specify any delimiter:

"some words in a string".split()

# => ['some', 'words', 'in', 'a', 'string']

Also read: How can I split by 1 or more occurrences of a delimiter in Python?