Terry Reedy wrote: > macc_200 wrote: >> Hi, >> just starting programming and have an elementary question after >> playing around with lists but cannot find the answer with googling. >> I have a list of variables and I would like some of those variables to >> be integers and some to be operators so the list would look something >> like [5 * 4 - 4 + 6] and then be able to evaluate the result (i.e. get >> 10). How do you make the interpreter see the operator as that instead >> of a string and just echo the list back to me. >
Without sanity checking following would work: a= [ '1' , '+' , '3' ] txt= ' '.join(a) rslt = eval(txt) bye N -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
