reading a list from a file

[David Bear]

I have a file that contains lists -- python lists. sadly, these are not
pickled. These are lists that were made using a simple print list
statement.

Is there an easy way to read this file into a list again?  I'm thinking I
would have to 

read until char = '['
   read until char = " ' "

Well, reading character by char until I have the list and then parse it all
myself.

I was hoping there was a pythonic way of doing this..

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David Bear
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