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| Date | 2011-05-13 13:30 -0400 |
| Subject | Re: How best to convert a string "list" to a python list |
| From | Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.1519.1305307841.9059.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
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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