Hello, Consider : >>> li = [1,2,3] >>> repr(li) '[1, 2, 3]' Is there a standard way to get back li, from repr(li) ? Regards, Harish -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20081231/ca9f8c7c/attachment-0001.html>