Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterb​ox

[John Gordon]

In <316efebe-7f54-4054-96b1-51c7bb7b7b25 at f5g2000vbt.googlegroups.com> ksals <kbsals5179 at 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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