string to list? possible?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <mailman.1011555569.13108.python-list at python.org>,
maximilianscherr <MaximilianScherr at T-Online.de> 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.
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