Defining a new function called parseName?? Completely Lost!

[minimee120]

Okay, so for some practice problems from a friend, he asked me to take some previous code, and define a function called parseName? I'm not familiar at all with what it is/does. The objective he gave me was to use this parseName function and to return the firstname, middlename, and lastname, in my code. How in the world do I implement this parse function to return what my code is already outputting?

My code is the following:

def getFirstName(fullname):
space = fullname.find(' ')
return fullname[0:space]

def getMiddleName(fullname):
count = fullname.count(' ')
old = fullname
new = ''
for i in range(count):
space = old.find(' ')
if i != 0:
new += old[:space] + ' '
old = old[space+1:]
return new

def getLastName(fullname):
count = fullname.count(' ')
temp = fullname
for i in range(count):
space = temp.find(' ')
temp = temp[space+1:]
return temp

name = 'Benjamin de la OMG I have a lot of middle names Franklin'

fname = getFirstName(name)
mname = getMiddleName(name)
lname = getLastName(name)

print(fname)
print(mname)

What is returned when code is run:

Benjamin
de la OMG I have a lot of middle names
Franklin

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[minimee120]

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I am aware of that, but I am unsure of how to do this using 'parse' ?