On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:52:29 -0000, nn <prueba...@latinmail.com> wrote:
Wes James wrote:
I have been trying to create a list form a string. The string will be
a list (this is the contents will look like a list). i.e. "[]" or
"['a','b']"
The "[]" is simple since I can just check if value == "[]" then return
[]
But with "['a','b']" I have tried and get:
a="['a','b']"
b=a[1:-1].split(',')
returns
[ " 'a' "," 'b' " ]
when I want it to return ['a','b'].
How can I do this?
thx,
-wes
I am surprised nobody gave you the simple answer yet that may even
work for your situation:
b=a[2:-2].split("','")
Because it's really *very* not robust. "Harmless" whitespace defeats it
for starters, and that's one of the most likely things to vary between
example data and reality. If you trust your data to be well-formed enough
for this to work, you might as well use eval() instead. If you don't,
parsing is the only sensible answer.
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