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user2871503
user2871503

Reputation: 35

Comma delimited string to variables in Python 2

I am looking to take a list or string that when printed looks like this:

9532167,box,C,5,20

and assign each comma delimited value to a set variable like so:

var1=9532167
var2=box
var3=C
var4=5
var5=20

(note-this isn't code, but how I want the pieces of string to be assigned to the variables)

Currently I have:

var1, var2, var3, var4, var5 = mystring

but get this error: 

exceptions.ValueError: too many values to unpack

I realize it is a very simple question, but no amount of searching has turned up something I can understand. I'm a newb to Python.

Thank you for any help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7271

Answers (2)

Rohit Jain
Rohit Jain

Reputation: 213223

You need to split the string on ,:

number, type, identifier, height, width = mystring.split(',')

Upvotes: 0

karthikr
karthikr

Reputation: 99620

You need to split the string.

number, type, identifier, height, width = mystring.split(',')

Read more here

Here, split would return a list of the individual elements from the string split on ,

Demo:

>>> x = "9532167,box,C,5,20"
>>> x.split(',')
['9532167', 'box', 'C', '5', '20']
>>> number, type, identifier, height, width = x.split(',')
>>>

Upvotes: 6

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