Spliting a string into a list

[HoneyBadger]

Guys I'm looking for a clean way of splitting a string into a list:

I have this:

myString = 'blue, red, pink, purple'

and I want this:

myString = ['blue', 'red', 'pink', 'purple']

How do I do that?

[TrustyTony]

This is basic thing, read tutorial:
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods

[HoneyBadger]

This is basic thing, read tutorial:
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods

Thanks Tony, but that link has too much information, I went over it twice I and didn't find what I needed.

is there a simple way of doing it?

[woooee]

It is explained in this tutorial. Also a web search for "python string split" will turn up more examples. You can use a split and specify the character, or replace and then split() with the default=space(s).

[HoneyBadger]

Thanks guys I got it:

myString.split(', ')