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>>> import timeit
>>> t = timeit.Timer("'word1 word2 word3 word'.split()")
>>> t.timeit()
2.5699281692504883
>>> t = timeit.Timer("['word1', 'word2', 'word3', 'word4']")
>>> t.timeit()
0.87361502647399902