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data in files and arrays

Split each line as you read it

Each line in the for loop represents a single string containing two
pieces of information:
Johnny 8.65
Juan 9.12
Joseph 8.45
Stacey 7.81
Aideen 8.05
Zack 7.21
Aaron 8.31

The for loop shredder TM
Each line contains a name and a number,
Brad 4.03
as a string.
Jim 7.91

Janet 7.49

T o isolate the score, you need to
cut each line in two.

You need to somehow extract the score from the string. In each
line, there is a name, followed by a space, followed by the score. You
already know how to extract one string from another; you did it for
Starbuzz back in Chapter 2. And you could do something similar
here using the find() method and index manipulation, searching
for the position of a space (' ') character in each line and then
extracting the substring that follows it.
Programmers often have to deal with data in strings that contain
several pieces of data separated by spaces. It’s so common, in fact, And you'll find that other
that Python provides a special string method to perform the cutting programming languages have very
you need: split(). similar mechanisms for breaking up
strings.
Python strings have a built-in split() method.

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