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

[ksals]

On May 2, 1:57 pm, Laurent Pointal <laurent.poin... at free.fr> wrote:
> ksals wrote:
> > On May 1, 5:29 pm, John Gordon <gor... at panix.com> wrote:
> >> In <3b5f65c4-cd95-4bb4-94f2-0c69cf2b1... at d20g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>
> >> ksals <kbsals5... at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> > 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 =3D eg.multenterbox(msg1,title, fieldNames, choice)
> >> > fieldNames has 5 fields.
>
> >> If you just need to convert a tuple to a list, that's easy.  Call the
> >> built-in function list() and pass the tuple as an intializer:
>
> >> >>> choice = ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')
> >> >>> print choice
>
> >> ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')>>> choice_list = list(choice)
> >> >>> print choice_list
>
> >> ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']
>
> >> --
> >> John Gordon                   A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs
> >> gor... at panix.com              B is for Basil, assaulted by bears
> >> -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"
>
> > This is a small excert to show you what I get
>
> > for choice in easygui.multchoicebox(msg1, title,qstack):
> >             if choice[0] == None:
> >                 print ("No entries made")
> >                 break
>
> >             print("CHOICE IS: ",choice)    .....         CHOICE IS:
> > ('', 'ksals', '', '', '')
> >             c=list(choice)
> >             print("C IS: ",c)              .....      C IS:  ['(',
> > "'", "'", ',', ' ', "'", 'k', 's', 'a', 'l', 's', "'", ',', ' ', "'",
> > "'", ',', ' ', "'", "'", ',', ' ', "'", "'",
> > ')']
>
> Looks like you have your tuple expression
>         ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')
> not as a tuple, but as a string. Do you convert it somewhere ?
>
> If you have it as a string, you can use eval() (not safe!) on the string to
> retrieve the tuple, then list() on the tuple to get a list.
>
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>

Thank you and everyone that helped me.  I did finally figure it out
this morning. I am now converting for my use. I just didn't understand
what I was looking at