reading a list from a file

[John Machin]

Rune Strand wrote:
> But iif it are many lists in the file and they're organised like this:
> 
> ['a','b','c','d','e']
> ['a','b','c','d','e']
> ['A','B','C','D','E'] ['X','F','R','E','Q']
> 
> I think this'll do it
> 
> data = open('the_file', 'r').read().split(']')
> 
> lists = []
> for el in data:
> 	el = el.replace('[', '').strip()
> 	el = el.replace("'", "")
> 	lists.append(el.split(','))
> 
> # further processing of lists
> 
> but the type problem is still to be resolved ;-)
> 

Try this:

["O'Reilly, Fawlty, and Manuel", '""', ',', '"Hello", said O\'Reilly']

:-)