Splitting text is one way to transform your unstructured data into structured data.

Here is an example;

"Egg, Chamomile, Ham" => ["Egg", "Chamomile", "Ham"]

As you can see we transform a string into a list of items.

Here is the code

my_ingredients = "Egg, Chamomile, Ham" 

my_ingredients_list = my_ingredients.split(", ")

print(my_ingredients_list)

Here you are! You now know how to split some text into a list in Python with split().

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