title: How to convert a string with comma-delimited items to a list in Python?
body: <p>How do you convert a string into a list?</p>
  
  <p>Say the string is like <code>text = "a,b,c"</code>. After the conversion, <code>text == ['a', 'b', 'c']</code> and hopefully <code>text[0] == 'a'</code>, <code>text[1] == 'b'</code>?</p>