how to convert string to list or tuple

[Simon Brunning]

On 5/26/05, flyaflya <flyaflya at gmail.com> wrote:
> a = "(1,2,3)"
> I want convert a to tuple:(1,2,3),but tuple(a) return ('(', '1', ',',
> '2', ',', '3', ')') not (1,2,3)

Short answer - use eval().

Long answer - *don't* use eval unless you are in control of the source
of the string that you are evaluating.

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