Getting text into list?

[PythonNotSoGuru]

Hey all im wondering if there is a way to take user input in format of a sentence and store it in the list by word. So like take text input and then each word in the input becomes an entry in a list. Any help?

code [python]

[bvdet]

>>> s = 'This is a sentence'
>>> s.split()
['This', 'is', 'a', 'sentence']
>>>

[PythonNotSoGuru]

why thank you good sir