2009/3/14 mattia <ger...@gmail.com>: > How can I convert the following string: > > 'AAR','ABZ','AGA','AHO','ALC','LEI','AOC', > EGC','SXF','BZR','BIQ','BLL','BHX','BLQ' > > into this sequence: > > ['AAR','ABZ','AGA','AHO','ALC','LEI','AOC', > EGC','SXF','BZR','BIQ','BLL','BHX','BLQ'] > > Thanks a lot, > Mattia > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Apart from the "obvious" and rather discouraged >>> list(eval("'AAR','ABZ','AGA','AHO'")) ['AAR', 'ABZ', 'AGA', 'AHO'] you may try e.g.: >>> [item[1:-1] for item in "'AAR','ABZ','AGA','AHO'".split(",")] ['AAR', 'ABZ', 'AGA', 'AHO'] hth, vbr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list