newbie question

[ast]

"Matt Wheeler" <m at funkyhat.org> a écrit dans le message de 
news:mailman.92.1458825746.2244.python-list at python.org...
> 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 ;)


I had a look at that "ast" module doc, but I must admit that
I didn't understood a lot of things.