Convert One String into a list of Int

Question

I would like to know how to convert a string like "1 -2 -8 4 5" into something like [1, -2, -8, 4, 5]

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score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 05 '17 at 05:53

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I'd split the string by the " " character, and convert each element to an int:

myList = [int(x) for x in myString.split(" ")]

or simply

myList = [int(x) for x in myString.split()]

by default split uses the white space ' ' as argument

edited Mar 05 '17 at 05:53

answered Mar 04 '17 at 16:00

Mureinik

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 04 '17 at 23:46

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array=list(map(int,string.split()))

edited Mar 04 '17 at 23:46

Brad

answered Mar 04 '17 at 16:01

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 04 '17 at 16:02

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list(map(int , string.split(' ')))

Split with a space.

answered Mar 04 '17 at 16:02

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