How to use python change a string into list cut by ','? -

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i have string

string_ = 'hello world, world, hello, stackoverflow, me, not, me' 

how change list this?

['hello world', 'world', 'hello', 'stackoverflow', 'me', 'not', 'me'] 

i have try

alist = list(string_) 

but when format alist shows

['h', 'e', 'l', ... ] 

this should trick:

alist = string_.split(', ')