get a list from a string

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On Jun 7, 3:34 am, simon kagwe <simonka... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a string "distances = [[1,1,1,1],[2,2,2,2]]". I want to create a
> variable called distances whose value is the list [[1,1,1,1],[2,2,2,2]]. How can
> I go about that? I know I can use setattr, but how do I create the list from the
> string?
>
> Regards,
> Simon

exec("distances = [[1,1,1,1],[2,2,2,2]]")

~Sean