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Re: How best to convert a string "list" to a python list

From Redcat <redcat@catfolks.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: How best to convert a string "list" to a python list
Date 2011-05-13 19:26 +0000
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On Fri, 13 May 2011 10:15:29 -0700, noydb wrote:

> I want some code to take the items in a semi-colon-delimted string
> "list" and places each in a python list.  I came up with below.  In the
> name of learning how to do things properly, do you experts have a better
> way of doing it?

How about the below?

dan@dan:~/development$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) 
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> x = "cyan;magenta;yellow;black"
>>> xList = x.split(';')
>>> xList
['cyan', 'magenta', 'yellow', 'black']
>>>

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How best to convert a string "list" to a python list noydb <jenn.duerr@gmail.com> - 2011-05-13 10:15 -0700
  Re: How best to convert a string "list" to a python list Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2011-05-13 13:30 -0400
  Re: How best to convert a string "list" to a python list MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-05-13 18:36 +0100
  Re: How best to convert a string "list" to a python list Redcat <redcat@catfolks.net> - 2011-05-13 19:26 +0000
  Re: How best to convert a string "list" to a python list Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-05-14 09:41 +0100
    Re: How best to convert a string "list" to a python list Daniel Kluev <dan.kluev@gmail.com> - 2011-05-14 21:16 +1100
    Re: How best to convert a string "list" to a python list Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-05-14 15:59 -0400

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