Change a string of integers separated by spaces to a list of int

Question

How do i make something like

x = \'1 2 3 45 87 65 6 8\'

>>> foo(x)
[1,2,3,45,87,65,6,8]

I\'m completely stuck, if i do it by inde

Answer 1

A simple line can be...

print (map(int, x.split()))  

As some one wisely corrected me, in python >=3, it shall become,

print(list(map(int,x.split())))  

It can also be user in earlier versions.