string to list? possible?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3C4B2344.FF927B34 at alcyone.com>,
Erik Max Francis  <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
>maximilianscherr wrote:
>>
>> i need to convert a string like "[1, 2, 3, 4]" to a list [1, 2, 3, 4].
>> possible?
>
>Yep:
>
>Python 2.1.1 (#6, Sep  2 2001, 10:26:49) 
>[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
>Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> str([1, 2, 3, 4])
>'[1, 2, 3, 4]'

You got the conversion reversed.
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