How to read formatted input in python?

Question

I want to read from stdin five numbers entered as follows:

3, 4, 5, 1, 8

into seperate variables a,b,c,d & e.

How do I do this in python?

Answer 1

Under Python 2.x only (*)

after a = input()

a is a tuple with the 5 values readily parsed!

A quick way to assign these 5 values is

a, b, c, d, e = a

(*) with Python version 3.0? or for sure 3.1, input() works more like the raw_input() method of 2.x, which makes it less confusing. (thank you mshsayem to point this out!)