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At the moment it looks like this:

myString="['ASK', 'NOT', 'WHAT', 'YOUR', 'COUNTRY', 'CAN', 'DO', 'FOR', 'YOU']"

I want it to end up like this:

myArray=['ASK', 'NOT', 'WHAT', 'YOUR', 'COUNTRY', 'CAN', 'DO', 'FOR', 'YOU']

How would I do this?

Theo Hodges
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  • My first thought was it's a JSON array, but the quotes are swapped around. If they weren't: `import json; myArray=json.loads('["ASK","WHAT","etc"]')` is the best way. – nigel222 May 11 '16 at 09:29

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>>> myString="['ASK', 'NOT', 'WHAT', 'YOUR', 'COUNTRY', 'CAN', 'DO', 'FOR', 'YOU']"
>>> list(map(lambda x:x.strip("'"), myString.strip('"[]').split(", ")))
['ASK', 'NOT', 'WHAT', 'YOUR', 'COUNTRY', 'CAN', 'DO', 'FOR', 'YOU']

or use this: 

>>> import ast
>>> ast.literal_eval(myString)
['ASK', 'NOT', 'WHAT', 'YOUR', 'COUNTRY', 'CAN', 'DO', 'FOR', 'YOU']
riteshtch
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