How can I split this data into 4 separate fields?

Question

I have a data file that contains a date and the average price of gas for that date. I want to be able to read the data from a file, store that data in a list named "gasList", and then split that data in the list into 4 separate fields so that I can display each field separately.

Here is the date followed by the price of gas:

04-05-1993:1.068 

I want to break this data down into these four separate fields:

04 05 1993 1.068?

I want to be able to test it like this:

>>>print(gasList[0])
04
>>>print(gasList[2])
1993
>>>print(gasList[3])
1.068

Answer 1

Seems like you want is list.split. In this case, the code would look like this:

data = "04-05-1993:1.068"
new_data = data.replace(":", "-").split("-")

This sets new_data to be a list of 4 different strings, which are only the significant parts.