extract words from string python and add them in array using nlp

Question

I have this problem in Python. I will import a line like say "Mary has a little lamp." I need to implement NLP so that I can put each word into an array. So the output will be a[0] = 'Mary' and so on.

import nltk
from nltk.corpus import wordnet 
from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
i = 0 
mytext = "Hello Mr. Adam, how are you? I hope everything is going well. Today is a good day, see you dude."
blah = [word_tokenize(i) for i in mytext]
blah[1]

The output gives 'e'

Answer 1

Just use:

blah = word_tokenize(mytext)