On Dec 11, 2007, at 5:14 PM, katie smith wrote: > "[16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16]"
Regular expressions might be a good way to handle this. import re s = '[16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16]' get_numbers = re.compile('\d\d*').findall numbers = [int(x) for x in get_numbers(s)] See: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html --- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list