How to get the last word from a string in Python?

By Sourav Dutta

In this tutorial, I’ll discuss how you can get the last word from a given string in Python. It’s very easy to get the last word from a given string in Python. To get the last word from a string, we have to convert the string into a list at the first. After converting the string into a list, simply we can use the slicing operator to get the last word of the string and then we can print it. For converting a string into a list we can simply use the split() method.

Syntax:

your_string.split(Separator, Maxsplit)

Separator: This is optional. This is used to specify where we want to split the string. By default, it takes whitespace as a separator.

Maxsplit : This is also optional. This is used to specify how many splits we want to do in the given string. By default, it takes the value as -1, which means all the occurrences or no limit on the number of splits.

Now, let me give an example to understand the concept

#taking input from the user
string = input("Enter your string: ")

#splitting the string
words = string.split()

#slicing the list (negative index means index from the end)
#-1 means the last element of the list
print(words[-1])

Output :

Enter your string: Welcome to Codespeedy
Codespeedy

In this above code, I gave the input as ‘Welcome to Codespeedy’ and it gave me output as ‘Codespeedy’ that is the last word of the string.

So I hope now you’re familiar with the concept of how you can get the last word from a string.

Also read:

• Python string rjust() and ljust() methods

2 responses to “How to get the last word from a string in Python?”

1. Aditya Sharma says:

   March 9, 2021 at 4:48 pm

   Thank you very very much… Whoever is reading this comment I want to tell you that this method works. You should try…

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2. tnhung2011 says:

   October 10, 2021 at 7:27 am

   Can you tell me how to specify the last string of a tumble in python?

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