splitting list with equal contents

Question

for example I have the following list:

contents= [\"i have two pens\",\"prices = 5$\",\"made in ____ and ____\"]

I want to split them such a wa

Answer 1

This is another choice, May be also complicated.

from itertools import izip_longest

array = [phrase.split() for phrase in contents]
l = izip_longest(*array, fillvalue=u'')
result = [list(t) for t in zip(*l)]