Bizzare lst length problem

[John Machin]

Ben wrote:
> ...and when I print out the string, it is still formatted as one would
> expect a list to be:
>
> <type 'str'> "['01', '02', '03', '04']"
>

We know that. Fredrik deduced it and told you well over an hour ago.

Show us the code that is creating instances of the panel class ...

panel1 =
panel(number=?,level=?,location=?,mops=????????????????,matrix=?)
What are you passing as the 4th positional arg
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ???