string to integer problem

[Peter Otten]

Lol McBride wrote:

> I'm currently having problems with data returned from a MySQL database in
> as much as the data returned is of the form '(1,10,23,33,35,48)' i.e. a
> list variable holding 6 integers returned as a string.
> I can't seem to get around how to return the data to it's original format
> i.e. the list with 6 integers - I have tried slicing the string and

>>> s = '(1,10,23,33,35,48)'
>>> [int(n) for n in s[1:-1].split(",")]
[1, 10, 23, 33, 35, 48]

Peter