Python3 - How to create a list from a string without breaking up the int

Question

I have a string "12 21 3 9 21 19" and I would like to split it up into a list [12, 21, 3, 9, 21, 19].

Doing newlist = list("12 21 3 9 21 19") breaks it up to [1,2,2,1,3,9,2,1,1,9]! Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Did you try Googling "how to split a string into a list"? – TigerhawkT3 May 07 '16 at 00:07 — TigerhawkT3, May 07 '16 at 00:07

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 07 '16 at 00:06

You can use .split()

e.g. -

>>> my_string = "12 21 3 9 21 19"
>>> a_new_list = my_string.split()
>>> print(a_new_list)
>>> ["12", "21", "3", "9", "21", "19"]

If you wanted the actual members of the list to be ints you could convert them to integers using map or some other method.

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