How to convert a string with comma-delimited items to a list in Python?

Question

How do you convert a string into a list?

Say the string is like text = \"a,b,c\". After the conversion, text == [\'a\', \'b\', \'c\'] and h

Answer 1

Example 1

>>> email= "myemailid@gmail.com"
>>> email.split()
#OUTPUT
["myemailid@gmail.com"]

Example 2

>>> email= "myemailid@gmail.com, someonsemailid@gmail.com"
>>> email.split(',')
#OUTPUT
["myemailid@gmail.com", "someonsemailid@gmail.com"]