Syntactic sugar for explicit lists?

[Antipaladin]

When creating an explicit list, list = [ 'a', 'b', 'c', ... 'z' ], is there a way to "self quote" like @list = qw( a b c ... z) in Perl?

[ThiefOfTime]

since strings always has to be inside of quotes i don't think that this is possible in python. Though, what comes close to that what you want to do is when you have a string some_string = "a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z" and you then use the split operator

some_string = "a b c ... z"
list = some_string.strip()

then list == ["a", "b", ..., "z"]
But maybe someone else nows a different way :)

[Antipaladin]

Thanks! I think I should probably stop trying to make Python act like Perl and embrace the new paradigm :)

[volcano63]

since strings always has to be inside of quotes i don't think that this is possible in python. Though, what comes close to that what you want to do is when you have a string some_string = "a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z" and you then use the split operator

some_string = "a b c ... z"
list = some_string.strip()

then list == ["a", "b", ..., "z"]
But maybe someone else nows a different way :)

Please, never - even in examples - shadow builtin "list" with a custom variable

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When creating an explicit list, list = [ 'a', 'b', 'c', ... 'z' ], is there a way to "self quote" like @list = qw( a b c ... z) in Perl?

There are str and repr functions in python - for a "flat" list of scalars, their output is similar

Output:
In [1]: l = list('abcde')

In [2]: l
Out[2]: ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']

In [3]: str(l)
Out[3]: "['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']"

In [4]: repr(l)
Out[4]: "['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']"

[wavic]

You have it.

In [1]: from string import ascii_lowercase

In [2]: print(ascii_lowercase)
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

In [3]: letters = list(ascii_lowercase)

In [4]: print(letters)
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z']

[ThiefOfTime]

since strings always has to be inside of quotes i don't think that this is possible in python. Though, what comes close to that what you want to do is when you have a string some_string = "a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z" and you then use the split operator

some_string = "a b c ... z"
list = some_string.strip()

then list == ["a", "b", ..., "z"]
But maybe someone else nows a different way :)

Please, never - even in examples - shadow builtin "list" with a custom variable

I normally would not do it. I just made it that way to fit it to his question. I also would never name a variable "and", "is", "path", etc.. Though, thanks for your tip.

[volcano63]

I normally would not do it. I just made it that way to fit it to his question. I also would never name a variable "and", "is", "path", etc.. Though, thanks for your tip.

When I feel too lazy to invent names - usually in forums or in prototyping - I just write list_, dict_, etc.