ConfigParser & converting strings to lists

[Edward K. Ream]

To complete this topic, let me restate the problem and JohnJacob's
elegant solution.

Suppose files is a list of strings, and we have written a configuration
section like this:

  config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
  config.set("recent files", "recentFiles, files)

Then the elegant way of retrieving files _as a list_ is:

  files = eval(config.get("recent files", "recentFiles"))

Thanks to all who replied.

Edward
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