how to read list from file

[Ravi Sahni]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Harvey Greenberg <hjgreenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, October 5, 2013 7:24:39 PM UTC-6, Tim Chase wrote:
>>   Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan  2 2013, 13:56:14)
>>   [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
>>   Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
>>   information.
>>   >>> s = "[{'a':1, 'b':2}, [1,2,3], 10]"
>>   >>> import ast
>>   >>> print repr(ast.literal_eval(s))
>>   [{'a': 1, 'b': 2}, [1, 2, 3], 10]
>>
>>
>>
>> -tkc
>
> that didn't work.  printing it looks like the list because it's the input, but try printing len(repr(ast.literal_eval(s))).  It should give 3, but it gives 72 (number of chars).

Please to remove the repr and try again?
Thank you!

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Ravi