Safe eval, or how to get list from string

[Edvard Majakari]

bwooster47 at gmail.com writes:

> I've to use ConfigParser.
>
> It returns values that are exactly in the config file, so get string
> variables like:
> int1 with quotes and characers: "42"
> this is easy to convert to int:
> realint = int(int1)

There's already a method getint() for that, you can just say

cfgparser.getint('section', 'int1')

> if there is list1 = "[ 'filea', 'fileb', ]", I can get at list by
> doing:
> reallist = eval(list1)

Are you sure you need to use ConfigParser for that? If you need to have
persistent Python data structures, I'd suggest marshalling data and using
(c)Pickle or similar.

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