String2List: odd function

[Emile van Sebille]

Isidor,

Maybe I'm missing something, but:

>>> a = eval ("[['itema1', 'itema2'], 'itemb1', ['cheese1',
['cheese1a','cheese1b'], '2'], 'blah', 'rest of itemb2', 'zib']")
>>> a
[['itema1', 'itema2'], 'itemb1', ['cheese1', ['cheese1a', 'cheese1b'],
'2'], 'blah', 'rest of itemb2', 'zib']


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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
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Isidor <rodisi01 at my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:199907211304.IAA14937 at cro.ots.ac.cr...
> Dear Pythonographers -
>
> Here is a very odd little something I have written in the process
> of trying to make ModuleWriter module (see previous message) deal
> with "documentary" strings.
>
> Takes a list-like string, e.g.,:
>
> "[['itema1', 'itema2'], 'itemb1', ['cheese1', ['cheese1a',
> 'cheese1b'], '2'], ''blah' rest of itemb2', 'zib']"
>
> and returns *real* lists:
>
> [['itema1', 'itema2'], 'itemb1', ['cheese1', ['cheese1a',
> 'cheese1b'], '2'], "'blah' rest of itemb2", 'zib']
>
> Which, in text-world, looks like nothing more than the removal of
> some quotation marks, but in Python-world...well, I don't have to
> tell you what the difference is.
>
> This function is probably a poster child for code-in-need-of-
> optimization. I have probably written the slowest possible
> version (actually, that's a boast to which I don't have the right
> to make either!)...I have written the most obvious clunker-headed
> version. I will be interested to hear suggestions for making it
> speedier and svelter. (I suspect that Guido's optimizations
> essay(s) may be useful here. I will have to review them.)
>
> GETTING IT: (repeated from my ModuleWriter message)
>
> I don't have web space where I can put this right now, so e-mail
> me at rodisi01 at my-deja.com, and every day or every other day, I
> will send a copy off to whoever has requested it. I know this is
> a hassle, I'm sorry. If it looks like there is serious interest
> in this thing, I will find some web space for it so you can click
> and save to your heart's content. In fact, I thought I heard
> someone in this list talk about offering web space for python
> projects....;)...
>
> ALTERNATIVELY:
>
> If someone will point me to (or give me) some suggestions re.
> posting code to the newsgroup, I could just do that. I'm worried
> about line breaks and all that stuff. Would an ascii attachment
> work in deja-world? (I've never had much access to newsgroups, so
> this is all sort of new to me, and I have to use the free and
> powerful (many many thanks!) but somewhat frustrating deja-news
> interface.)
>
> I hope someone finds this interesting or at least amusing!
>
> Isidor
>
>
>
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