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Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 21:16:02 +1100
Subject: Re: How best to convert a string "list" to a python list
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On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> to use a regular expression to match everything up to the next delimiter,
> and do this in a loop to extract the individual items.

re.findall() should let you match all items at once, without loop.

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Daniel Kluev