Bizzare lst length problem

[Ben]

Ah... my list is a string. That explains the len() results, but not why
it is a string in the dirst place.

I have a dictionary containing a number of instances of the following
class as values:

class panel:
    mops =[]

    def __init__(self,number,level,location,mops,matrix):
         self.number=number
         self.level=level
         self.location=location
         self.mops=mops
         self.matrix=matrix


abve mops is a list, yet when I access it it is a string...



Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Ben wrote:
>
> > The output from this would be (for a given key value):
> >                 Number:	181
> >                 Level:	ovride+supvis
> >                 Location:	 mons=4 v8.0 3rd floor
> >                 MOPS:	['287', '288', '289', '290']
> >                 List Length:	28
> >                 Matrix:	kng
> >
> > This is really odd...my len(v.mops) ought to return 4 (4 elements in
> > the list).
>
> adding a
>
>      print type(v.mops), repr(v.mops)
>
> debug statement might provide you with the clues you need.
>
>  > In fact it returns 28. looking at outputs from lots of
> > records, it seems that the length is almost always 7 time too great
> > (28/7=4)....but not always.
>
>  >>> len("['287',")
> 7
>  >>> len(" '288',")
> 7
>  >>> len(" '289',")
> 7
>  >>> len(" '290']")
> 7
> 
> </F>