Re: Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterb​ox

[ksals]

On May 1, 4:26 pm, John Gordon <gor... at panix.com> wrote:
> In <316efebe-7f54-4054-96b1-51c7bb7b7... at f5g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> ksals <kbsals5... at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Please help a newbe.  I have a string returned from an esygui
> > multchoicebox that looks like
> >   this:  ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') I need to convert this to
> >   this:  ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']
>
> That looks like a tuple which contains five strings.  But you said it's
> a string, so I'll believe you.
>
> >>> x = "('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')"
> >>> print x
>
> ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')>>> y = "[%s]" % x[1:-1]
> >>> print y
>
> ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']
>
> --
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>
>

The original choice looks like this when I print it:

print(choice)
('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')

I need to submit these as defaults to a multenterbox. Each entry above
ksals, "", "alsdkfj', 3 , '' need to fill the five fields in the box.
I tried your suggestion so you must be right it is a tuple of 5
strings.  But I need them to work in an instruction like
fieldValues = eg.multenterbox(msg1,title, fieldNames, choice)
fieldNames has 5 fields.