robin wrote: > i'm doing some udp stuff and receive strings of the form '0.870000 > 0.250000 0.790000;\n' > what i'd need though is a list of the form [0.870000 0.250000 0.790000] > i got to the [0:-3] part to obtain a string '0.870000 0.250000
Actually, that's already a bug. You want [0:-2] if you're going to do it that way. Unless you meant that your string actually has a backslash and an "n" character, which is doubtful... You should probably use something more like Steven's solution, although I'd personally use s.strip(';') or at least s.rstrip(';') if I had semicolons to remove, rather than a combined endswith(';') and slicing the last character off. > 0.790000' but i can't find a way to convert this into a list. i tried > eval() but this gives me the following error: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > File "<string>", line 1 > .870000 0.250000 0.79000 (If you'd posted the full error (that's an incomplete traceback), someone would probably have pointed out how to interpret what Python told you so that you'd already have figured out what was wrong with that...) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list