Hi, Thanks for your reply! A new thing learned....
Allow me to follow that up with another question: Let's say I have a result from a module called pyparsing: Results1 = ['abc', 'def'] Results2 = ['abc'] They are of the ParseResults type: >>> type(Results1) <class 'pyparsing.ParseResults'> >>> type(Results2) <class 'pyparsing.ParseResults'> I want to convert them into Python lists. list() will work fine on Results1, but on Results2, it will return: ['a', 'b', 'c'] Because 'abc' is a string. But I want it to return ['abc']. In short, my question is: how do I typecast an arbitrary object, whether a list-like object or a string, into a Python list without having Python split my strings into characters? Thanks very much for your help! David p.s. I know pyparsing has an asList() method, but let's just say I am unable to use it in my circumstances. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
