mattia wrote: > Il Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:30:43 +0100, Vlastimil Brom ha scritto: > >> 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'] > > Why discouraged?
The guys controlling the website you are scraping could feed you something you didn't expect, e. g.: supposed_to_be_flight_codes = "__import__('os').system('rm whatever')" eval(supposed_to_be_flight_codes) # oops, crash landing Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list