How to convert string to list without eval or exec

[Fuzzyman]

"Oliver Kurz" <olku at web.de> wrote in message news:<mailman.158.1078818680.19534.python-list at python.org>...
> Hello,
> 
> could someone give me a solution how to convert a string to a list without using eval or exec?
> 
> The string looks like:
> 
> '[["abc","abc",["abc","abc"],"abc"],["abc","abc",["abc","abc"],["abc",["abc","abc"]],"abc"],"abc"]'
> 
> and should be converted to a list:
> 
> [['abc', 'abc', ['abc', 'abc'], 'abc'], ['abc', 'abc', ['abc', 'abc'], ['abc', ['abc', 'abc']], 'abc'], 'abc']
> 
> I'm not allowed to use eval or exec.
> 
> --

I'm not sure if you now have a working answer to this problem... but
as part of configuration file parser I've written a string to list
parser.....

It will parse a line of text into nested lists.... still
'experimental' but it passes the tests I've done so far....

listparse is included as a module in the ConfigObj 2 zip... see :
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html#configobj


Regards,


Fuzzy

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