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

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Date Fri, 13 May 2011 13:30:39 -0400
Subject Re: How best to convert a string "list" to a python list
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On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:15 PM, noydb <jenn.duerr@gmail.com> 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?

Strings have a split method, which splits the string into a list based
on a delimiter, like this:

>>> x = "red;blue;green;yellow"
>>> color_list = x.split(";")
>>> print color_list
['red', 'blue', 'green', 'yellow']

That's how I'd do it.

-- 
Jerry

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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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