Converting Values

If I have a list like this:

Is there way to get the values from that list, meaning 2 - 12 - * - * - 1?

I am building this list from a file using a readline() in a while statement. I want to grab each one/value in the list and convert it to something different, being 2 is equal to 2 minutes past the hour, * is equal to all, etc.

I do NOT want to break the list up like this (comma seperated):

There is no gurantee on spaces or characters or commas or any value, so I cant key off of that. I need to keep the path to the .sh script in place and all the paths are different, so I cant key off of that either.

Examle of a full built list:
['2 12 * * 1 /export/data/rc/jm_wkly_poll.sh', '0 * * 2 23 /usr/bin/home/$tonk.sh', '0 0 0 * * /export/data/rc/jm_wkly_poll.sh', 2 12 1,15 * * /export/data/curr_items.sh']

Any ideas?

From your example and description I would say that the fields are separated by spaces, so you can use the string split() method.



This will convert the string into a list of substrings. You can extract the fields you want, and use int() to convert the substrings to integers (test for '*' before calling int() though, or it will throw an exception).

Dave - The Developers' Coach




Dave - The Developers' Coach

You should probably do a check to see if the string is a digit/number using the isdigit() method. This would be more acurate than looking for a '*' when it comes to the path, since this wont convert to an int() either.

Or try and convert all the values but the path at the end using list[:-1] and keep checking for that '*' character.

Mark.