phrase = "Duke will beat UNC"
b = phrase.split()
print b
['Duke', 'will', 'beat', 'UNC']


b.append("on")
print b
['Duke', 'will', 'beat', 'UNC', 'on']


b = b + "Saturday"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Susan\AppData\Local\Enthought\Canopy\App\appdata\canopy-2.1.3.3542.win-x86_64\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\interactiveshell.py", line 2885, in run_code
    exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)
  File "<ipython-input-7-44237ceac98e>", line 1, in <module>
    b = b + "Saturday"
TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "str") to list

b = b + ["Saturday"]
print b
['Duke', 'will', 'beat', 'UNC', 'on', 'Saturday']


c = " ".join(b)
print c
Duke will beat UNC on Saturday


c = "-".join(b)
print c
Duke-will-beat-UNC-on-Saturday


print b
['Duke', 'will', 'beat', 'UNC', 'on', 'Saturday']

c = " YES ".join(b)
print c
Duke YES will YES beat YES UNC YES on YES Saturday


estr = "earthquake, 1.3, 81km SSW of Kobuk, Alaska"
b = estr.split()
print b
['earthquake,', '1.3,', '81km', 'SSW', 'of', 'Kobuk,', 'Alaska']


b = estr.split(",")
print b
['earthquake', ' 1.3', ' 81km SSW of Kobuk', ' Alaska']


b = estr.split(", ")
print b
['earthquake', '1.3', '81km SSW of Kobuk', 'Alaska']


c = [b[0], b[1], b[2:]]
print c
['earthquake', '1.3', ['81km SSW of Kobuk', 'Alaska']]


c = [b[0], b[1], ", ".join(b[2:])]
print c
['earthquake', '1.3', '81km SSW of Kobuk, Alaska']