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

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <Cw_o4.3$hj6.566 at nnrp1.uunet.ca>,
Warren Postma <embed at geocities.com> wrote:
>
>Now how do I read that line in from a file and convert it from a string to a
>list?

exec, eval(), or execfile().  All three have security problems,
though...
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