How to automate list separation. NOOB

[perfringo]

Would you provide any code to show your effort?

For example I have a following string and want to get wonder numbers:

>>> wonder_numbers = """meaning of life 42
... golder ratio is 1.61
... random num is 123"""
>>> [float(row.split()[-1]) for row in wonder_numbers.split('\n')]
[42.0, 1.61, 123.0]

Then I can do all nice min(), max() and pop() things to get largest, smallest and second largest item.