title: Python - Splitting strings in a list delimited by space
body: <p>I have a list in the following format:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>mylist = ["a word 1 2 3 4","b word 5 6 7 8"]  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm trying to split this into 2 new lists, one for each string, ie.:  </p>
  
  <pre><code>newlist1 = ["a","word","1","2","3","4"]
  newlist2 = ["b","word","5","6","7","8"]   
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I've not had any luck. I've tried various methods and looked at lots of similar questions but haven't been able to apply those successfully to my issue.</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm still very new to Python and I know this is probably a very simple thing to do!</p>