Add characters (',') every time a certain character ( , )is encountered ? Python 2.7.3

Question

Let's say you had a string

test = 'wow, hello, how, are, you, doing'

and you wanted

full_list = ['wow','hello','how','are','you','doing']

i know you would start out with an empty list:

empty_list = []

and would create a for loop to append the items into a list

i'm just confused on how to go about this,

I was trying something along the lines of:

for i in test:
    if i == ',':

then I get stuck . . .

This is a dupe: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5453026/string-to-list-in-python — Matthew Trevor, Aug 27 '12 at 03:19
Upvotes for a question already asked a dozen times without having done any research? — , Aug 27 '12 at 03:22

David · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-27T03:06:16.903

6

In Python, the nicest way to do what you want is

full_list = test.split(', ')

If your string might have some commas that aren't followed by spaces, you would need to do something a little more robust. Maybe

full_list = [x.lstrip() for x in test.split(',')]

edited Aug 27 '12 at 03:06

answered Aug 27 '12 at 02:59

David

Perhaps tack .lstrip() on the end to remove the spaces that follow the commas. – minopret Aug 27 '12 at 03:01

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 27 '12 at 06:22

-1

>>> test = 'wow, hello, how, are, you, doing'
>>> full_list = test.replace(",","','")
>>> print full_list
wow',' hello',' how',' are',' you',' doing

i just added the flanking quotations manually

answered Aug 27 '12 at 06:22

O.rka

1

This is a string that looks a bit like the _string representation_ of a list. A list is a very different thing to a string – John La Rooy Aug 27 '12 at 06:42
Agreeing w/ @gnibbler : this answer has little to do with the question, -1. – Pierre GM Aug 27 '12 at 10:22

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