Create a list from string, in Python 3.3

You can use input.split(',') but as others have noted, you'll have to deal with leading and trailing spaces. Possible solutions are:

• without regex:

  In [1]: s = 'John, 16, random_word, 1, 6, ...'
  
  In [2]: [subs.strip() for subs in s.split(',')]
  Out[2]: ['John', '16', 'random_word', '1', '6', '...']
  

  What I did here is use a list comprehension, in which I created a list whose elements are made from the strings from s.split(',') by calling the strip method on them. This is equivalent to

  strings = []
  for subs in s.split(','):
      strings.append(subs)
  print(subs)
  

• with regex:

  In [3]: import re
  
  In [4]: re.split(r',\s*', s)
  Out[4]: ['John', '16', 'random_word', '1', '6', '...']
  

Also, try not to use input as variable name, because you are thus shadowing the built-in function.

You can also just split on ', ', but you have to be absolutely sure there's always a space after the comma (think about linebreaks, etc.)

Use the split function.

output = input.split(', ')

If I understand correctly, simply do:

output = input.split(',')

You will probably need to trim each resulting string afterwards since split does not care about whitespaces.

Regards, Matt