How to get back a list object from its string representation?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:27:01 -0200, Steven D'Aprano  
<steve at remove-this-cybersource.com.au> escribió:

> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:08:29 -0200, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>
>> eval is like Pandora´s box, all kind of bad things can come from it. Do
>> not use it with any user-supplied string. If you can restrict the values
>> to be just constants, there is a "safe eval" recipe in
>> http://code.activestate.com
>
> The ast module in Python 2.6 includes a "literal eval" function:
>
>>>> ast.literal_eval("[1, 2, 3]")
> [1, 2, 3]

That's a very nice addition!

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Gabriel Genellina