String of integers separated by commas surrounded by square brackets

[Tim Couper]

It looks like you have a string which starts and ends with square
brackets and is a repeated group of (integer, comma (and perhaps
space)). What you don't have is a "string with a list in it" :-)

One solution:

s="[16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16]"

mylist=[int(s.strip()) for s in s[1:-1].split(',')]

Tim

Dr Tim Couper
CTO, SciVisum Ltd

www.scivisum.co.uk

katie smith wrote:

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

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[Larry Bates]

Tim Couper wrote:

It looks like you have a string which starts and ends with square
brackets and is a repeated group of (integer, comma (and perhaps
space)). What you don't have is a "string with a list in it" :-)

One solution:

s="[16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16]"

mylist=[int(s.strip()) for s in s[1:-1].split(',')]

Tim

Dr Tim Couper
CTO, SciVisum Ltd

www.scivisum.co.uk

katie smith wrote:

>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

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If you know the string doesn't contain anything evil (that is you control where
it comes from) you can also do:

mylist=eval(s)

-Larry