[python] Get a list of numbers as input from the user

I tried to use raw_input() to get a list of numbers, however with the code

numbers = raw_input()
print len(numbers)

the input [1,2,3] gives a result of 7, so I guess it interprets the input as if it were a string. Is there any direct way to make a list out of it? Maybe I could use re.findall to extract the integers, but if possible, I would prefer to use a more Pythonic solution.

Answer is trivial. try this.

x=input()

Suppose that [1,3,5,'aA','8as'] are given as the inputs

print len(x)

this gives an answer of 5

print x[3]

this gives 'aA'

It is much easier to parse a list of numbers separated by spaces rather than trying to parse Python syntax:

Python 3:

s = input()
numbers = list(map(int, s.split()))

Python 2:

s = raw_input()
numbers = map(int, s.split())

try this one ,

n=int(raw_input("Enter length of the list"))
l1=[]
for i in range(n):
    a=raw_input()
    if(a.isdigit()):
        l1.insert(i,float(a)) #statement1
    else:
        l1.insert(i,a)        #statement2

If the element of the list is just a number the statement 1 will get executed and if it is a string then statement 2 will be executed. In the end you will have an list l1 as you needed.

I think if you do it without the split() as mentioned in the first answer. It will work for all the values without spaces. So you don't have to give spaces as in the first answer which is more convenient I guess.

a = [int(x) for x in input()]
a

Here is my ouput:

11111
[1, 1, 1, 1, 1]

num = int(input('Size of elements : '))
arr = list()

for i in range(num) :
  ele  = int(input())
  arr.append(ele)

print(arr)

you can pass a string representation of the list to json:

import json

str_list = raw_input("Enter in a list: ")
my_list = json.loads(str_list)

user enters in the list as you would in python: [2, 34, 5.6, 90]

Another way could be to use the for-loop for this one. Let's say you want user to input 10 numbers into a list named "memo"

memo=[] 
for i in range (10):
    x=int(input("enter no. \n")) 
    memo.insert(i,x)
    i+=1
print(memo) 

a=[]
b=int(input())
for i in range(b):
    c=int(input())
    a.append(c)

The above code snippets is easy method to get values from the user.

You can use .split()

numbers = raw_input().split(",")
print len(numbers)

This will still give you strings, but it will be a list of strings.

If you need to map them to a type, use list comprehension:

numbers = [int(n, 10) for n in raw_input().split(",")]
print len(numbers)

If you want to be able to enter in any Python type and have it mapped automatically and you trust your users IMPLICITLY then you can use eval

eval(a_string) evaluates a string as Python code. Obviously this is not particularly safe. You can get safer (more restricted) evaluation by using the literal_eval function from the ast module.

raw_input() is called that in Python 2.x because it gets raw, not "interpreted" input. input() interprets the input, i.e. is equivalent to eval(raw_input()).

In Python 3.x, input() does what raw_input() used to do, and you must evaluate the contents manually if that's what you want (i.e. eval(input())).

Get a list of number as input from the user.

This can be done by using list in python.

L=list(map(int,input(),split()))

Here L indicates list, map is used to map input with the position, int specifies the datatype of the user input which is in integer datatype, and split() is used to split the number based on space.

.