The .split() method splits a string into a list:
myString = "Hello my name is John" x = myString.split() print x
Results in a new list:
['Hello', 'my', 'name', 'is', 'John']
If we then split this by the commas:
myString = "Hello my name is John"
x = myString.split(",")
print x
We get a list which contains just this string:
['Hello my name is John']
Lets say we have our string split into a list:
myString = "Hello my name is John" x = myString.split() print x
Output: ['Hello', 'my', 'name', 'is', 'John']
But we only want the LAST item in that list, all we need to do is add [-1] to the end of the split method:
myString = "Hello my name is John" x = myString.split()[-1] print x
Output: John