String to sequence

[mattia]

Il Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:24:38 +0100, Ulrich Eckhardt ha scritto:

> mattia wrote:
>> How can I convert the following string:
>> 
>> 'AAR','ABZ','AGA','AHO','ALC','LEI','AOC',
>> EGC','SXF','BZR','BIQ','BLL','BHX','BLQ'
>> 
>> into this sequence:
>> 
>> ['AAR','ABZ','AGA','AHO','ALC','LEI','AOC',
>> EGC','SXF','BZR','BIQ','BLL','BHX','BLQ']
> 
> import string
> string.split("a,b,c", ',')
> 
> Now, I'm not 100% clear if this fits your above example because it's not
> clear what of the above is Python code and what is actual string
> content, but I hope this will get you started.
> 
> cheers!
> 
> Uli

Well, it was quite easy (although I'm new to python ;-)). I scrape a list 
of flights by their code [A-Z]{3} and then I save them into a sequence. 
Reading the documentation now I've got:

dests = dests.replace("'", "")
dests = dests.split(",")

and everything is OK