On 2/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Every example of a list that I've seen involves working with, sorting, etc
> pre-populated list. How can I create a list where the user inputs a string
> of numbers and then sorts it?
The code of yours gets a commaseparated _string_, which you are
putting into a list. The list contains one element only; the string
you entered.
What you want to do is this:
print "Input list separated by commas"
foo = raw_input()
lst = foo.split(",")
print lst
print len(lst)
lst.sort()
print lst
> leading me to believe that it is seeing
> the input as 1 large input instead of separate numbers.
Correct.
raw_input() is not smart enough to split the elements for you, so you
need to do the dirty work. The string-method "split" does this. Type
help("".split) for more info.
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- Rikard.
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