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Subject: Re: Python, convert an integer into an index?
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:26:04 -0400
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 07:45:50 -0600, <paul.hermeneutic@gmail.com> declaimed
the following:

>>> I'm suprised. Why not just:
>>>
>>> list(str(results))
>>>
>>> In other words, is there something else the list constructor should do
>>> with a string other than convert it to a list?
>>>
>> The OP wanted the result to be a list of ints, not a list of strings.
>
>[int(x) for x in list(str(results))]

	results is already a string, so why convert it to a string, and list()
is just splitting the string on each character.

[int(x) for x in results]

takes out all the intervening crud.
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