How to read formatted input in python?

Question

I want to read from stdin five numbers entered as follows:

3, 4, 5, 1, 8

into seperate variables a,b,c,d & e.

How do I do this in python?

Answer 1

If you print out a (the variable containing your input) you will find out, that a already contains a tuple. You do not have to split the contents.

>>> a = input()
3, 4, 5, 1, 8
>>> print(a)
(3, 4, 5, 1, 8)
>>> type(a)

>>> a[0]
3
>>> len(a)
5