How to pass a list as an environment variable?

Question

I use a list as part of a Python program, and wanted to convert that to an environment variable.

So, it\'s like this:

list1 = [\'a.1\',\'b.2\',\'c.3\']
         


        

Answer 1

If you want to set the environment variable using that format, this would work:

from ast import literal_eval

list1 = [literal_eval(e.strip()) for e in os.environ["LIST_ITEMS"].split(',')]
for item in list1:
    alpha,number = item.split('.')
    print alpha, number

Output:

a 1
b 2
c 3