string to list? possible?

[Christophe Delord]

This could also be written as follow:

 >>> x="[1, 2, 3, 4]"
 >>> map(int,x[1:-1].split(','))
[1, 2, 3, 4]
 >>>

Roy Smith wrote:

> aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote:
> 
> 
>>>i need to convert a string like "[1, 2, 3, 4]" to a list [1, 2, 3, 4].
>>>possible?
>>>
>>>>>eval("[1, 2, 3, 4]")
>>>>>
>>[1, 2, 3, 4]
>>
>>The problem is that there's no error checking, and if you're accepting
>>input from a possibly-hostile source, it could muck with your program or
>>data files.
>>
> 
> You can solve both of those problems with:
> 
> l = []
> for s in x[1:-1].split(','):
>     l.append (int (s))
> 
> It's a bit ugly, but does the job.
>