string to list? possible?

[Fredrik Lundh]

"maximilianscherr" wrote:
> i need to convert a string like "[1, 2, 3, 4]" to a list [1, 2, 3, 4].
> possible?

assuming the string always contains a list of integers,
here's one way to do it:

>>> str = "[1, 2, 3, 4]"
>>> import re
>>> map(int, re.findall("\d+", str))
[1, 2, 3, 4]

(if you had something else in mind, you need to start writing
better specifications ;-)

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