Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Where's the line form to split those who'd prefer the first vs the
> second result in this sample <G>:
>
>>>> unExpected = "What about a string"
>>>> firstToLast = unExpected[:]
>>>> repr(firstToLast)
> "'What about a string'"
>>>> explicitList = list(unExpected)
>>>> repr(explicitList)
> "['W', 'h', 'a', 't', ' ', 'a', 'b', 'o', 'u', 't', ' ', 'a', ' ', 's',
> 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g']"
>>>>
Well, as things stand, there's a way to get whichever result you need. The
`list` constructor builds a single list from a single iterable. The list
literal enclosed by `[`, `]` makes a list containing a bunch of items.
Strings being iterable introduces a wrinkle, but `list('abcde')` doesn't
create `['abcde']` just as `list(1)` doesn't create `[1]`.
Mel.
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