Martin Walsh wrote:
> johnf wrote:
>> On Thursday 16 April 2009 05:04:39 pm Alan Gauld wrote:
>>> "johnf" wrote
>>>
> I want to save the list to the field and when I retrieve the string
> convert
> it back to a list.
>
> But this does NOT work.
> mylist=[1,2,3,4]
> myst
johnf wrote:
> On Thursday 16 April 2009 05:04:39 pm Alan Gauld wrote:
>> "johnf" wrote
>>
I want to save the list to the field and when I retrieve the string
convert
it back to a list.
But this does NOT work.
mylist=[1,2,3,4]
mystr=str(mylist)
newlist=
On Thursday 16 April 2009 05:04:39 pm Alan Gauld wrote:
> "johnf" wrote
>
> >> I want to save the list to the field and when I retrieve the string
> >> convert
> >> it back to a list.
> >>
> >> But this does NOT work.
> >> mylist=[1,2,3,4]
> >> mystr=str(mylist)
> >>
> >> newlist= list(mystr)
> >>
"johnf" wrote
I want to save the list to the field and when I retrieve the string
convert
it back to a list.
But this does NOT work.
mylist=[1,2,3,4]
mystr=str(mylist)
newlist= list(mystr)
I keep thinking there must be a simple way of get this done.
Is this a good way?
newlist = eval(mys
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:52 PM, johnf wrote:
> I am dealing with a database field that can only store strings.
> I want to save the list to the field and when I retrieve the string convert it
> back to a list.
>
> But this does NOT work.
> mylist=[1,2,3,4]
> mystr=str(mylist)
>
> newlist= list(my
On Thursday 16 April 2009 03:52:02 pm johnf wrote:
> I am dealing with a database field that can only store strings.
> I want to save the list to the field and when I retrieve the string convert
> it back to a list.
>
> But this does NOT work.
> mylist=[1,2,3,4]
> mystr=str(mylist)
>
> newlist= lis
