How to convert a string with comma-delimited items to a list in Python?

Question

I want to know, how we can convert string data into a list format data?

For example: A string is like text = "a,b,c". After the conversion, text == ['a', 'b', 'c'] and hopefully text[0] == 'a', text[1] == 'b'?

Answer 1

Kindly refer to the below code for converting the string into list format:

text = 'a,b,c'

text = text.split(',')

text

[ 'a', 'b', 'c' ]

Or, you can also take the help of an in-built function in Python named eval():

text = 'a,b,c'

text = eval('[' + text + ']')

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