Syntactic sugar for explicit lists?

[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']"