Let's say that I have the following text:

in = "one aaa two bbbb three cccc"

I would like to parse this into a group of variables that contain

notworking = ["one", "two", "three"]

v1,v2,v3 = in.split(notworking)

I know that the example above won't work, but is there some utility in python that would allow me to use this sort of approach? I know what the identifiers will be in advance, so I would think that there has got to be a way to do this...

Thanks for any help, jml