On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 7:22 AM, john polo <jp...@mail.usf.edu> wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I looked back through the methods for strings. I also > looked at the csv module, but I couldn't tell which one of those would help. > The small .txt file does have commas, but with the weird form of listname = > [1] , [2], [3], etc. for a .csv, I don't know how that would be read in a > like a .csv. But now that I think about it, datObj2 in my script prints just > the list elements, so maybe the 'listname=' part wouldn't affect it... >
Hmm, interesting. Perhaps ast.literal_eval will help here? Parse off the bit after the first equals sign and feed it to literal_eval. You'll get back a tuple. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
