Split a Full Name and Return Multiple Values

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Implement split_name(full_name) that splits a "First Last" string on whitespace and returns the first and last name as a 2-tuple (first, last) — demonstrating Python's idiom of returning multiple values as an implicit tuple.

Examples

Example 1

Input

split_name('Ada Lovelace')

Output

('Ada', 'Lovelace')

Explanation

Split on the single space between the two words.

Constraints

full_name always has exactly two space-separated words.

Topics

TuplesStrings

Companies

OracleIBM

Hints

Hint 1

str.split() with no arguments splits on any whitespace.

Hint 2

Returning "first, last" implicitly builds a tuple.

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