[Tutor] reading lists from a text file

Noufal Ibrahim noufal at nibrahim.net.in
Thu Mar 12 18:52:10 CET 2009


Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل) wrote:
> Hi Tutors,
> I've never had a situation in which this was useful for me, but I'm just 
> curious.
> If there is a text file that has a list or number of lists in it, is 
> there is a way to read the lists in the file as lists, and not as a 
> string. Sample file attached.
> 

I suppose you could read it as a string and then 'eval' it. That'd be 
risky though.


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