Newbie Question

[Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com]

Tom,

Well, as one newbie to another, I tried this;

>>> x = '22,44,66,88,"asd,asd","23,43,55"'
>>> y = eval(x)
>>> y
(22, 44, 66, 88, 'asd,asd', '23,43,55')

given that x some how comes from a single line in your file.

BTW, do you get the tutor list as well?  My guess is that the 'experts' over
here might prefer that the newbies go over there for stuff like this.  

And now, a question for the experts.  Does anyone have a pointer as to why
my code might be dangerous?  I get the feeling that eval might not be a
'good' ( safe ) thing to use.

Michael

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Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 10:05 AM
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Subject: Newbie Question


I have a file that contains many lines, each of which consists of a string 
of comma-separated variables, mostly floats but some strings. Each line 
looks like an obvious tuple to me. How do I save each line of this file as a

tuple rather than a string? Or, is that the right way to go?

Thank you.

Tom Strickland 


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