title: How to obtain the separate parts of a string when you don't know the amount of parts there will be
body: <p>I have searched and searched yet found nothing for my application</p>
  
  <pre><code>def getInput():
      command = input("What would you like to do now? ").split()
      verb_word = command[0]
  
      if verb_word in verbDict:   
          verb = verbDict[verb_word]
      else:      
          print('Unknown command: "{}"'.format(verb_word))
          print("The commands are:")        
          for i in len(verb_dict):
              print(verbDict[i])    
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I already have a split but I need the separate parts and then to call a function with them that has multiple parameters yet none are the same.</p>