Assuming that the a string object contains multiple words separated by one space. The split() method of string class returns a list of words separated by space character. This list object is sorted by invoking sort() method of built-in list class
>>> string='Hello how are you?' >>> list=string.split() >>> list ['Hello', 'how', 'are', 'you?'] >>> list.sort() >>> list ['Hello', 'are', 'how', 'you?']