String to list conversion (1)

The string module includes the split function, e.g.:

import string

aString = "Fruits: bananas, apples, pears"
aStringAsAList=string.split(aString)
print aStringAsAList
print aStringAsAList[2]

prints:

['Fruits:', 'bananas,', 'apples,', 'pears']
apples,