User input into array - python 3

Question

Hi there i am trying to put a user input into an array, so far i have:

#Decrypt string
def decrypt():
    print("Please enter code to be decrypted.")
    text = input(">>>")
    print("Please enter your key used to encrypt the data.")
    key = int(input(">>>"))



    #Put input into array
    #????

I am tring to get the input and put it in an array so that it can be referenced using

chr(text[1])

To convert it into plain text from ascii (Basic encryption and decryption). I have found a few posts on this but they are outdated (for python2 etc...).

Thanks!

`text[1]` should already work regardless of Python2 vs Python3... — OneCricketeer, Jun 17 '16 at 20:23
Possible duplicate of [How to get char from string by index?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8848294/how-to-get-char-from-string-by-index) — Tadhg McDonald-Jensen, Jun 17 '16 at 20:25
@cricket_007 It does work, i just want to be able to refence it from the users input like you would from an array. — aidan, Jun 17 '16 at 20:26
@TadhgMcDonald-Jensen i cant use that solution because some elements will be 3 letters long and i wont know what to select i also just want it as an int in a array. — aidan, Jun 17 '16 at 20:29
show me an answer that didn't work for you because you are using python3. I don't see how it would be different between versions. — Tadhg McDonald-Jensen, Jun 17 '16 at 20:32
Do you mean convert to [list of ints as in their ordinals](http://stackoverflow.com/q/8452961/5827215)? — Tadhg McDonald-Jensen, Jun 17 '16 at 20:42
you can `split` by some delimeter. ie `array = user_input.split(" ")` — marcusshep, Jun 17 '16 at 21:03

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 17 '16 at 22:16

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If you just want to have an indexable list to store user inputs as they come in, you can use the built-in list class and its append method:

keys = list();
texts = list();

def decrypt():
  print("Please enter code to be decrypted.")
  text = input(">>>")
  print("Please enter your key used to encrypt the data.")
  key = int(input(">>>"))
  texts.append(text)
  keys.append(key)

Now, texts[n] will return the nth text value entered by your user.

answered Jun 17 '16 at 22:16

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Sorry i didn't see this but i just used `text1 = text.split()` since the input comes with spaces and it works a charm, thanks though! – aidan Jun 18 '16 at 07:02

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