Good evening,
I have a python variable like so
myList = ["['Ben'", " 'Dillon'", " 'Rawr'", " 'Mega'", " 'Tote'", " 'Case']"]
I would like it to look like this instead
myList = ['Ben', 'Dillon', 'Rawr', 'Mega', 'Tote', 'Case']
If I do something like this
','.join(myList)
It gives me what I want but the type is a String
I also would like it to keep the type of List. I have tried using the Join method and split method. And I have been debugging use the type() method. It tells me that the type in the original scenario is a list.
I appreciate any and all help on this.
>Solution :
Join the inner list elements, then call ast.literal_eval() to parse it as a list of strings.
import ast
myList = ast.literal_eval(",".join(myList))