> How on earth do I convert strings to lists. I have a string > with a list it in it and I'm trying to convert it into a > list. Please help me. > > Ex."[16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16]"-string to > [16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16] -list
If you trust your input, you can just do >>> s = "[16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16]" >>> eval(s) [16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16] However, if you don't trust your input quite so much, you can do the following: >>> [int(i.strip()) for i in s.strip('[]').split(',')] [16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16] It throws away the outer brackets ("strip('[]')"), splits it into a list of comma-separated items (".split(',')"), and then iterates over each resulting item, stripping of whitespace and converting it to an int. HTH, -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list