Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterb​ox

2012-05-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Laurent Pointal wrote: > If you have it as a string, you can use eval() (not safe!) on the string to > retrieve the tuple, then list() on the tuple to get a list. Are you saying that eval is not safe (which it isn't), or that it has to be eval() and not safe_eval()

Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterb​ox

2012-05-02 Thread ksals
On May 2, 1:57 pm, Laurent Pointal wrote: > ksals wrote: > > On May 1, 5:29 pm, John Gordon wrote: > >> In <3b5f65c4-cd95-4bb4-94f2-0c69cf2b1...@d20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com> > >> ksals writes: > > >> > The original choice looks like this when I print it: > >> > print(choice) > >> > ('ksals', ''

Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterb​ox

2012-05-02 Thread Laurent Pointal
ksals wrote: > On May 1, 5:29 pm, John Gordon wrote: >> In <3b5f65c4-cd95-4bb4-94f2-0c69cf2b1...@d20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com> >> ksals writes: >> >> > The original choice looks like this when I print it: >> > print(choice) >> > ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') >> > I need to submit these as de

Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterb​ox

2012-05-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
The tutorial suggests multchoicebox returns an interable of chosen items, in fact probably a seqeunce. So... On 01May2012 14:50, ksals wrote: | This is a small excert to show you what I get | | for choice in easygui.multchoicebox(msg1, title,qstack): | if choice[0] == None: |

Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterb​ox

2012-05-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
Disclaimer: I have never used esygui. On 01May2012 21:29, John Gordon wrote: | In <3b5f65c4-cd95-4bb4-94f2-0c69cf2b1...@d20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com> ksals writes: | > The original choice looks like this when I print it: | | > print(choice) | > ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') That's just pr

Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterb​ox

2012-05-01 Thread ksals
On May 1, 5:29 pm, John Gordon wrote: > In <3b5f65c4-cd95-4bb4-94f2-0c69cf2b1...@d20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com> ksals > writes: > > > The original choice looks like this when I print it: > > print(choice) > > ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') > > I need to submit these as defaults to a multenterb

RE: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterb​ox

2012-05-01 Thread Prasad, Ramit
> > That looks like a tuple which contains five strings. > The original choice looks like this when I print it: > > print(choice) > ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') Based on the print statement, choice is a tuple or a string. try doing `print(type(choice))`. On the assumption it is a tuple a

Re: Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterb​ox

2012-05-01 Thread John Gordon
In <3b5f65c4-cd95-4bb4-94f2-0c69cf2b1...@d20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com> ksals writes: > The original choice looks like this when I print it: > print(choice) > ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') > I need to submit these as defaults to a multenterbox. Each entry above > ksals, "", "alsdkfj', 3 , '

Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterb​ox

2012-05-01 Thread ksals
On May 1, 4:26 pm, John Gordon wrote: > In <316efebe-7f54-4054-96b1-51c7bb7b7...@f5g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> ksals > writes: > > > Please help a newbe.  I have a string returned from an esygui > > multchoicebox that looks like > >   this:  ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') I need to convert thi

Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterb​ox

2012-05-01 Thread Pedro Kroger
Have you tried to use the function list?: foo = (1,2,3) list(foo) Cheers, Pedro -- http://pedrokroger.net On May 1, 2012, at 5:18 PM, ksals wrote: > Please help a newbe. I have a string returned from an esygui > multchoicebox that looks like > this: ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') I ne

Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterb​ox

2012-05-01 Thread John Gordon
In <316efebe-7f54-4054-96b1-51c7bb7b7...@f5g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> ksals writes: > Please help a newbe. I have a string returned from an esygui > multchoicebox that looks like > this: ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') I need to convert this to > this: ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']