Invoke a Command-line Program Using Python

In Windows, Linux, MacOS, etc. you can either start up programs using the user interface (pointing and clicking with your mouse) or from a command line. When you run something from the command line, it does basically the same thing behind the scenes, but you type commands instead.
For example, in Windows, you can open Internet [...] Read more »

Convert a Delimited String to a List in Python

Let’s say you have a string with values that are delimited by a comma. This would be common when parsing text files.
So suppose you have a delimited string:

x = "abc,def,ghi"

You can convert that into a Python list using the split function, passing the character that is delimiting the items:

y = x.split(",")
print y // [’abc’, ‘def’, [...] Read more »