[Tutor] input and raw input

[Brian Jones]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Evert Rol <evert.rol at gmail.com> wrote:

> > any one have an idea about how we can input many number in the one time
> and change it to list.
> > for example:
> >
> > a=input("Enter the number of your class in the school:")     # the number
> can be enter as: 12,13,14 or 12 13 14 with a space in between.
> >
> > now how I can put these numbers into list like b=[12,13,14] with len( a )
> =3
>
> A string has a method split(); that may help you.
> In your case, where you want either a space or a comma as a separator, it
> depends whether both can be used at the same time. If not, you can check for
> the occurrence of one or the other separator and run split() with the
> correct separator. If both can occur in the same line, you may want to use
> the regex module instead: re.split()
>

No need for the 're' module. Even in the case where both can be used
together, you can still just use string methods:

>>> s
'12, 13 14'
>>> s.replace(',', '').split(' ')
['12', '13', '14']




> hth,
>
>  Evert
>
>
> > I tried with that but it's working only for a numbers less than 10 ex.
> 1,2,3 or 1 2 3 but it's not when I go for numbers higher than 10 like in
> example above.
> >
> > a=raw_input("Enter the number of your class in the school:")
> > m=[]
> >  for I range (len( a)):
> >     if a[I]==',':
> >         pass
> >     elif a[I]==' ':
> >         pass
> >     else:
> >         m.append(a[I])
> > m=map(float,m)
> > print m;print len( m )
> > >> [1,2,3]
> > >> 3
> >
> > looking forward to seeing your help,
> > regards,
> > Ahmed
> >
> >
> >
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