Python - Get first word form a string

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If you have a python string and you want to get the very first word from that string, you can use the below code.

my_str = "Hello World"
first_word = my_str.split(' ', 1)[0]
print(first_word)
# -> Hello

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We are using the .split() method of python string here. First, we are splitting the string using spaces between the words then we are getting the first word using index 0.

Example 2: Using partition() method of python string

my_str = "Hello World"
first_word = my_str.partition(' ')[0]
print(first_word)
# -> Hello

In the above code, we are getting the first word using the partition() method. We are passing the space separator to the method and getting the first-word using index 0.

Example to get first words and the rest of the words

str_1 = "Programming is cool"
(first_word, rest_of_the_words) = str_1.split(maxsplit=1)

print(first_word) # -> Programming
print(rest_of_the_words) # -> is cool

The above code example will return the first word in the first_word variable and the rest of the words in the rest_of_the_words variable.

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