input values in list python code example

Example 1: get list as input

#to get integer list
integer_list = list(map(int, input().split()))
#to get char or str list, just replace int with str
str_list = list(map(str, input().split()))
#syntax of map(): map(dataType, iterable [, iterable2, iterable3,...iterableN])

Example 2: how to get user input of list in python

# number of elements 
n = int(input("Enter number of elements : ")) 
  
# Below line read inputs from user using map() function  
a = list(map(int,input("\nEnter the numbers : ").strip().split()))[:n] 
  
print("\nList is - ", a)

Example 3: how to get an input into a list python

input_string = input("Enter a list element separated by space ")
list  = input_string.split()
print("Calculating sum of element of input list")
sum = 0
for num in list:
    sum += int (num)
print("Sum = ",sum)