[Tutor] Turning a string into a tuple?

[David L. Lerner]

The eval() statement!!!

 eval ("['Alda', 11, 9, 6, 'Trey', 10, 12]")

gives me:

['Alda', 11, 9, 6, 'Trey', 10, 12]

I found this five minutes after asking.  Thank you for your time.

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>I need to turn a string:

>"['Alda', 11, 9, 6, 'Trey', 10, 12]"

>into a tuple:

>['Alda', 11, 9, 6, 'Trey', 10, 12]

>This seems like it should be simple, sort of  the reverse of  string (),
but
>I can't find how to do it.  I tried:

>>>> tuple ("['Alda', 11, 9, 6, 'Trey', 10, 12]")

>and I got:

>('[', "'", 'A', 'l', 'd', 'a', "'", ',', ' ', '1', '1', ',', ' ', '9', ',',
>' ', '6', ',', ' ', "'", 'T', 'r', 'e', 'y', "'", ',', ' ', '1', '0', ',',
'
>', '1', '2', ']')


Thank you
David L. Lerner
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