How to split value where is comma ?

[Rustom Mody]

On Friday, September 9, 2016 at 1:36:24 AM UTC+5:30, Larry Hudson wrote:
> On 09/08/2016 07:57 AM, John Gordon wrote:
> > In  Joaquin Alzola writes:
> >
> >> Use the split
> >
> >> a.split(",")
> >> for x in a:
> >> print(x)
> >
> > This won't work.  split() returns a list of split elements but the
> > original string remains unchanged.
> >
> > You want something like this instead:
> >
> >     newlist = a.split(",")
> >     for x in newlist:
> >         print(x)
> >
> 
> Even easier...
> 
> for x in a.split(','):
>      print(x)

In all probability, what is required is just: a.split(','); no for, no print

And unfortunately none of the answers (that I see) describe the spectrum of
what one may really want
 a.split(',')
 set(a.split(','))

Less likely (in this case) but important for a learner to be aware of:
 Counter(a.split(',')

And if the original 'a' looked something like
>>> a="p:1,q:2,r:42"

then you probably want something like:

>>> {k:v for item in a.split(',') for k,v in [item.split(':')]}
{'q': '2', 'p': '1', 'r': '42'}
>>>
In all cases the print is irrelevant and unnecessary

And if we insist on interpreting the OP request for replacing comma by newline
(almost always a misconceived request), one can do:


>>> a="p,q,r"
>>> str(a.replace(',','\n'))
'p\nq\nr'

Sure one can go one step further and do:
>>> print str(a.replace(',','\n'))
p
q
r

But this is almost always not what the requester wants (even if he thinks it is)

[Personal note: When I was a kid I thought that doctors removed fever by sticking
a thermometer into one’s mouth.
Those who teach that programming needs to start with writing print statements
are the same except for not having the excuse of being kids]