Converting a string to list for submission to easygui multenterbox

[ksals]

Please help a newbe.  I have a string returned from an esygui
multchoicebox that looks like
  this:  ('ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '') I need to convert this to
  this:  ['ksals', '', 'alsdkfj', '3', '']

This is so I can submit this to a multchoicebox with 5 fields