I still hold my vote that if you need to reverse the "stringification" of a list, you shouldn't have stringified the list and lost hold of the original list in the first place. That is the solution above all others.
On Dec 12, 2007, at 10:26 AM, Paul McGuire wrote: > On Dec 12, 7:25 am, Lee Capps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Regular expressions might be a good way to handle this. >> >> import re >> >> s = '[16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16]' >> get_numbers = re.compile('\d\d*').findall >> >> numbers = [int(x) for x in get_numbers(s)] >> > > Isn't '\d\d*' the same as '\d+' ? > > And why would you invoke re's when str.split(',') (after stripping > leading and trailing []'s) does the job so well? > > numbers = map(int, s.strip('[]').split(',')) > > Or if map is not to your liking: > > numbers = [int(x) for x in s.strip('[]').split(',')] > > -- Paul > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list