string to list? possible?

[Erik Max Francis]

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
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>>> str([1, 2, 3, 4])
'[1, 2, 3, 4]'

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