[Tutor] Extract Names from string

[Joel Goldstick]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 9:09 AM Stephen P. Molnar <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> I have a project which generates a large number of data files and have
> pyhon scrip;t that does most of the pre- and post-processing. However, I
> have one problem which has not succumbed to Googling.
>
> I have a list of chemical names which I can load as a string of the form:
>
> "name1","name2", . . .
>
> Unfortunately, the names are not the same length which precludes
> extracting each name by indexing.
>
> My question is ho w to extract individual names?
>

you need the csv module: https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html
> Thanks in advance.
>
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