I want some code to take the items in a semi-colon-delimted string "list" and places each in a python list. I came up with below. In the name of learning how to do things properly, do you experts have a better way of doing it?
Thanks for any inputs! *** x = "red;blue;green;yellow" ## string of semi-colon delimited colors color_list = [] ## sc = semi-colon while x.find(";") <> -1: sc_pos = x.find(";") current_color = x[0:sc_pos] ## color w/o sc current_color_sc = x[0:sc_pos+1] ## color with sc color_list.append(current_color) ## append color to list x = x.replace(current_color_sc, "") ## remove color and sc from string print current_color print color_list print x + "\n" color_list.append(x) # append last color left in x (no sc at end of string) print color_list print "done" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list