title: Python - split string into smaller chunks and assign a variable
body: <p>Is it possible to split a string in python and assign each piece split off to a variable to be used later? I would like to be able to split by length if possible, but im not sure how it would work using len().</p>
  
  <p>i tried this but its not getting me what i needed:</p>
  
  <pre><code>x = 'this is a string'
  x.split(' ', 1)
  print x
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>result:
      ['this']</p>
  
  <p>i want to result to something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>a = 'this'
  b = 'is'
  c = 'a'
  d = 'string'
  </code></pre>