On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:10 Sven R. Kunze, <srkunze at mail.de> wrote: > On 24.03.2016 11:57, Matt Wheeler wrote: > >>>> import ast > >>>> s = "(1, 2, 3, 4)" > >>>> t = ast.literal_eval(s) > >>>> t > > (1, 2, 3, 4) > > I suppose that's the better solution in terms of safety. > It has the added advantage that the enquirer gets to import a module that shares their name ;) >