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I've been working through some coding exercises and I can't seem to figure out how to use list comprehension in one of them effectively! The challenge is asking me to write code that takes an input string, splits it into words using a space as the delimiter (obviously), but then also removes any word shorter than three characters. Here's what I have so far: '''my_list = [word for word in sentence if len(sentence) > 2]''' Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to work, and it returns an empty list no matter the input string! Any suggestions on how to approach or correct my code would be greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone :) P.S: I'm aware that Python lists don't handle strings very well in terms of length checking (since they are objects), but is there a way around this issue within list comprehensions?