String of integers separated by commas surrounded by square brackets to a list (was Re:)

[Larry Bates]

Tim Couper wrote:
> It looks like you have a string which starts and ends with square 
> brackets and is a repeated group of (integer, comma (and perhaps 
> space)). What you don't have is a "string with a list in it" :-)
> 
> One solution:
> 
> s="[16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16]"
> 
> mylist=[int(s.strip()) for s in  s[1:-1].split(',')]
> 
> Tim
> 
> Dr Tim Couper
> CTO, SciVisum Ltd
> 
> www.scivisum.co.uk
> 
> 
> 
> katie smith wrote:
>> How on earth do I convert strings to lists. I have a string with a 
>> list it in it  and I'm trying to convert it into a list. Please help me.
>>  
>> Ex."[16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16]"-string
>> to [16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16] -list
>>
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If you know the string doesn't contain anything evil (that is you control where 
it comes from) you can also do:

mylist=eval(s)

-Larry