How to get a tuple from string upto nth occurence of separator

[tymbos9999]

a = "Nople Normal Altar1-truck-Altar2,Altar2-train-Cansomme,Cansomme-flight-Karoh,Karoh-truck-Nople"

x= tuple(a.split(' '))
print(x)

I want the output tuple to be as below :

x= ( Nople , Normal)

 

[bashBedlam]

Is this what you're looking for?

print (tuple (a.split (' ')[:2]))