title: Perl qw-operator in Python?
body: <p>I'm a native perl but are using python a lot lately. I was wondering if there is something similar to the perl qw// operator which is a shortcut to get around typing multiple quotes and commas when creating a list of several strings that do not include spaces.</p>
  <p>Example: <code>@list = qw(Paul Michael Jessica Megan);</code> (from <a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Perl_Programming/Array_Variables" rel="nofollow noreferrer">wikibooks</a></p>
  <p>I can't really find anything but the operator's name might be very different...
  Cheers, Lars</p>