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

# to strip `,` and `.` from a string ->

>>> 'a,b,c.'.translate(None, ',.')
'abc'

You should use the built-in translate method for strings.

Type help('abc'.translate) at Python shell for more info.

Answer 2

Like this:

>>> text = 'a,b,c'
>>> text = text.split(',')
>>> text
[ 'a', 'b', 'c' ]

Alternatively, you can use eval() if you trust the string to be safe:

>>> text = 'a,b,c'
>>> text = eval('[' + text + ']')