Hi,
You can use literal_eval from ast package.
>>> from ast import literal_eval
>>> list(literal_eval("'aa','bb','cc'")
this will return ['aa', 'bb', 'cc']
Thanks,
Anoop Thomas Mathew
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On 14 June 2012 12:28, Shambhu Rajak <shambhu.ra...@kpitcummins.com> wrote:
> This will do you job:
>
> >>> a = 'AAA,"BBBB,CCCC,DDDD",EEE,FFF,GGG'
> >>> b = []
> >>> for x in a.split(','):
> ... if (x.find("\"") > -1):
> ... x = x.strip("\"")
> ... b.append(x)
>
> If you want reduce the lines of code u can go for this option:
> b = [x.strip("\"") for x in a.split(',')]
>
>
> So Just Cheerz,
> -Shambhu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bruce g [mailto:bruceg113...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 14/06/2012 8:00 AM
> To: python-list@python.org
> Subject: string to list
>
> What is the best way to parse a CSV string to a list?
>
> For example, how do I parse:
> 'AAA,"BBBB,CCCC,DDDD",EEE,FFF,GGG'
> to get:
> ['AAA','BBB,CCC,DDDD','EEE','FFF','GGG']
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce
>
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