How do I print a string one word at a time in Python?

I am trying to print a string one word per line using a loop. For example if the string is, 'I need practice', the string should print: I'\n' need'\n' practice

My code so far looks like this:

phrase=input('enter a phrase: ') for char in phrase: print (char, end ='') if char == '': print('\n') 

However, my output looks like this:

I need practice

2 Answers

You can use the .split() function to split a string by spaces and that will give you back a list of words that you can then loop and print them out.

The function accepts a string that will be used as the delimiter (e.g ",") if this argument is not specified or is None it will run an algorithm that will consider a sequence of whitespaces as a single separator and hence, as a result, no matter how many spaces there are between the words you will get a list of words with no whitespaces at the start or the end of each substring.

phrase = input("Enter a phrase: ") words = phrase.split() # ['I', 'need', 'practice'] for word in words: print(word) 

Just replace the spaces with \n 's

phrase=input('enter a phrase: ')

words = phrase.replace(' ', '\n')

Note the space in the first argument of replace.