Il Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:35:59 +0100, Peter Otten ha scritto: > mattia wrote: > >> 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'] > >>>> s = "'AAR','ABZ','AGA','AHO','ALC','LEI','AOC'" >>>> csv.reader(StringIO.StringIO(s), quotechar="'").next() > ['AAR', 'ABZ', 'AGA', 'AHO', 'ALC', 'LEI', 'AOC'] > > or > >>>> s = "'AAR','ABZ','AGA','AHO','ALC','LEI','AOC'" list(compile(s, >>>> "nofile", "eval").co_consts[-1]) > ['AAR', 'ABZ', 'AGA', 'AHO', 'ALC', 'LEI', 'AOC'] > > Peter
Ok, and what about if the string is "['AAR', 'ABZ', 'AGA', 'AHO', 'ALC']" I wanted to use eval(string) but it is discouraged, they say. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list