当元素未包含在引号中时，将列表的字符串表示形式转换为列表

Question

Similar to Convert string representation of list to list but consider the elements in the list are not encased in quotes, eg

x = '[a, b, c, ab, adc, defg]'

How could you convert this to a list of string elements in python?

['a', 'b', 'c', 'ab', 'adc', 'defg']

Answer 1

As it's a string, you can take the square brackets off and split by your delimiter:

>>> x = '[a, b, c, ab, adc, defg]'
>>> x[1:-1].split(', ')

['a', 'b', 'c', 'ab', 'adc', 'defg']

Answer 2

This should do the trick:

>>> x = '[a, b, c, ab, adc, defg]'
>>> [i.strip(',[]') for i in x.split()]
['a', 'b', 'c', 'ab', 'adc', 'defg']

But of course, this assumes this exact format and nothing else more complicated

Answer 3

Below

x = '[a, b, c, ab, adc, defg]'
l = x[x.find('[') + 1: x.find(']')].split(',')
print(l)

Answer 4

You could do following:

import re
x = '[a, b, c, ab, adc, defg]'
x = re.sub(r"[\[\]]", "", x)
split_x = x.split(',')
print(split_x)