string to list? possible?
Jan Dries
jan.dries at dcube-resource.be
Sun Jan 20 15:08:34 EST 2002
maximilianscherr wrote:
> i need to convert a string like "[1, 2, 3, 4]" to a list [1, 2, 3, 4].
> possible?
How about this:
Python 2.1 (#15, Apr 16 2001, 18:25:49) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> s = "[1,2,3,4]"
>>> l = eval(s)
>>> print type(l)
<type 'list'>
>>> print l
[1, 2, 3, 4]
>>>
Regards,
Jan
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