ruby %w equivalent

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> hg <hg at nospam.com> (A) wrote:

>A> Antoine De Groote wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
>>> 
>>> is there a python equivalent for the ruby %w operator?
>>> %w{a b c} creates an array with strings "a", "b", and "c" in ruby...
>>> 
>>> Thanks a lot
>>> Regards,
>>> antoine

>A> Why would they want to make such an obscure API ? ... didn't they have
>A> Python to learn from (I am truly amazed - nothing cynical ...just ...
>A> why ?!!!!)

I think it is modeled after Perl.
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