string to list? possible?

[Cliff Wells]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:16:16 -0000
Julius Welby wrote:

> "maximilianscherr" <MaximilianScherr at T-Online.de> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1011555569.13108.python-list at python.org...
> > i need to convert a string like "[1, 2, 3, 4]" to a list [1, 2, 3, 4].
> > possible?
> >
> >
> 
> x = "[1,2,3,4,5]"
> x = "x=" + x
> exec(x)
> 
> Probaby just as bad or worse security wise than eval, and more
> complicated....but I just had to post. Sorry.

shorter:

s = "[1,2,3,4,5]"
l = eval(s)

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