expanding strings to a list

Question

I am trying to convert a string such as '239,24,6462,93' to a list like ['239', '24', '6462', '93'] as sort of an opposite of str.join() . Is there anything that can do that? All help appreciated.

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cssGEEK · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-19T19:40:15.230

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Lets say this string is called "str".

str='239,24,6462,93';

Now to get these numbers into a list you can type the following:

numbers=str.split(",")

Output

['239', '24', '6462', '93']

edited Jun 19 '16 at 19:40

answered Jun 19 '16 at 19:31

cssGEEK

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Why are you using the word list in this example? I thought you should never use the names of Python built-ins as variable names. – PyNEwbie Jun 19 '16 at 19:38
sorry my bad you can stil use that name but it is not good practice – cssGEEK Jun 19 '16 at 19:39

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 19 '16 at 17:33

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>>> '239,24,6462,93'.split(",")
['239', '24', '6462', '93']

answered Jun 19 '16 at 17:33

Martin Hallén

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