In article <3rcdnuciwpp1gzhnnz2dnuvz7vqaa...@giganews.com>, Tony the Tiger <tony@tiger.invalid> wrote:
> Hi, > Is there such a thing in the language, or do I have to invent it myself? > > I came up with the following: > > # options.modus_list contains, e.g., "[2,3,4]" > # (a string from the command line) > # MODUS_LIST contains, e.g., [2,4,8,16] > # (i.e., a list of integers) > > if options.modus_list: > intTmp = [] > modTmp = options.modus_list[1:-1] > for itm in modTmp: > intTmp.append(int(itm)) > MODUS_LIST = intTmp To answer the question you asked, to convert a list of strings to a list of ints, you want to do something like: MODUS_LIST = [int(i) for i in options.modus_list] But, to answer the question you didn't ask, if you're trying to parse command-line arguments, you really want to use the argparse module. It's a little complicated to learn, but it's well worth the effort. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
