[Tutor] Re: Convert list to literal string.

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

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On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 09:40:06AM -0500, Decibels wrote:
| Having a little problem with part of my program.
| I had a little setup program I wrote to populate a database.
| In the setup I used literal strings for the symbols, and figured later
| I would have it take command-line options for them.
|=20
| Problem is now, I can't get the function to work with the list, only if
| I enter the data as literal strings.
|=20
| Example:
|=20
| stocks =3D "IBM,EK"
|=20
| send that to the yahooquotes module and works fine!

Ok.

| When I enter them from the command-line though it doesn't
| It comes as a list and won't work. =20

What is the code that exhibits this?

Command line arguments are always strings until the application turns
them into other data structures.

| Is there a way to make a list into a literal?

Lists can be converted into strings in many ways.  The one you want to
use depends entirely on the structure of the list you have and the
desired format of the string you want.

-D

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