275 The json module is a better solution whenever there is a stringified list of dictionaries. The json.loads(your_data) function can be used to convert it to a list.
To split on other delimiters, see Split a string by a delimiter in python. To split into individual characters, see How do I split a string into a list of characters?.
For handling a few strings in separate variables, see How do I append one string to another in Python?. For the opposite process - creating a list from a string - see How do I split a string into a list of characters? or How do I split a string into a list of words? as appropriate.
I'm trying to convert a string to a list of words using python. I want to take something like the following: string = 'This is a string, with words!' Then convert to something like this : list = ...
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module> TypeError: list indices must be integers, not str How would I achieve comparing the first and the last element of a list of strings?
