String to sequence

[mattia]

Il Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:30:43 +0100, Vlastimil Brom ha scritto:

> 2009/3/14 mattia <gervaz at gmail.com>:
>> 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']
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Mattia
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>>
>>
> Apart from the "obvious" and rather discouraged
>>>> list(eval("'AAR','ABZ','AGA','AHO'"))
> ['AAR', 'ABZ', 'AGA', 'AHO']

Why discouraged?

> 
> you may try e.g.:
> 
>>>> [item[1:-1] for item in "'AAR','ABZ','AGA','AHO'".split(",")]
> ['AAR', 'ABZ', 'AGA', 'AHO']
> 
> hth,
>   vbr