Converting a string to a tuple
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Apr 13 10:19:18 EDT 1999
Bruce Huzyk wrote:
> I will now take this opportunity to revise my original post.
> I wish to convert a string to a tuple.
> My sample string should have been:
> s = '(1, "abc\\tef", 2)'
> instead of:
> s = '(1, "abc\\def", 2)'
if that's Python source code, your string
actually contains:
(1, "abc\tef", 2)
since \\ is Python's string representation
for a single backslash (that is, \\ in the
source code becomes \ in the actual
string).
and \t is an alias for \011 (a tab).
try printing it (using print) to see what
I mean.
but I doubt that this is the real problem --
if you have these strings in Python source
code, you could as well use your editor
to remove the quotes, right?
so if you get the data from a file or any
other external source, the plain eval
solutions work as they should. for
simple data types like this,
v == eval(repr(v))
is always true.
</F>
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