String of integers separated by commas surrounded by square brackets to a list (was Re:)

[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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