Perl qw-operator in Python?

Question

I am a native perl, but lately have been using python very often. I was wondering if there is something similar to the perl qw // operator, which is a shortcut to get around a set of several quotes and commas when creating a list of several lines that do not include spaces.

Example: @list = qw(Paul Michael Jessica Megan); (from wikibooks

I can’t find anything, but the name of the operator may be completely different ... Greetings, Lars

Answer 1

No, but you can use split :

 my_list = "Paul Michael Jessica Megan".split(" ")