How do you undo x = `a` if A is a list?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Warren> Let's suppose I have a list A:
    Warren> a = [ "first", "second", "third" ]

    Warren> And I want to save to a text file on disk the following Exactly
    Warren> into myfile.txt.  I looked at Pickle, but "human readable" is
    Warren> not one of Pickle's features.

Warren,

Check out the eval and execfile builtin functions and the exec statement in
the docs.  One or more of them will do what you want...

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