save input into an array

Question

words = []

TranslatedText = str(input("Enter the text you want to translate: ")) #fe Hello World
words.append(TranslatedText)
print(words)

when i do this, it works but the output is ['Hello World'].
How can i make it so the output is ['Hello', 'World']
I want it to be like that so i can access each word...idk how to do it if it's 1 string.

Answer 1

You can see one possible solution
https://code.sololearn.com/cJ9e0O7dRsZT/?ref=app

Answer 2

Use split() method.

“Hello World”.split() -> [‘Hello’, ‘World’]

In your example, simply do

words = input("Enter the text you want to translate: ").split()

print(words)