</tt> to break the string into 
a list of tokens, you can use the index operator (square
bracket) to look at a particular word in the list.<br />
<br />
You can call <tt>split</tt> with 
an optional argument called a <b>delimiter</b> specifies which
characters to use as word boundaries.
The following example
uses a hyphen as a delimiter:</font><br />
<br />
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&gt;&gt;&gt; s = 'spam-spam-spam'
&gt