In <316efebe-7f54-4054-96b1-51c7bb7b7...@f5g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> ksals
<kbsals5...@gmail.com> writes:
> Please help a newbe. I have a string returned from an esygui
> multchoicebox that looks like
> this: ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') I need to convert this to
> this: ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']
That looks like a tuple which contains five strings. But you said it's
a string, so I'll believe you.
>>> x = "('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')"
>>> print x
('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '')
>>> y = "[%s]" % x[1:-1]
>>> print y
['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']
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