string to list? possible?

[Lionel Ulmer]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 19:38:20 -0000, 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?

>>> a = eval("[1, 2, 3, 4]")
>>> a
[1, 2, 3, 4]

But well, you need to be sure that no syntax errors are in the lists :-)

                 Lionel

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