tcl list to python list?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <AclPg.4515$vD2.429 at tornado.texas.rr.com>,
Paul McGuire <ptmcg at austin.rr._bogus_.com> wrote:
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>Er?  Thanks for the nice comments re: pyparsing, sometimes I feel a little 
>self-conscious always posting these pyparsing snippets.  So I'm glad you 
>clarified your intent with your "I'll be more precise" paragraph.  But I'm 
>not sure I see the reason for an 18-O "No!"
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>"Outsider"?  I'm no stranger to Tcl (although I *am* a bit rusty).  In the 
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>- write a Tcl proc to recursively traverse a list, returning a stringified 
>list in Python-like syntax (enclosing non-list items in ''s, separating with 
>commas, nesting sublists with []'s, etc.)
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I like your work, Paul.  My comment about "outsider" was aimed
at other readers of this thread, not you; I recognize I didn't
make that clear.

I'm still unsure how the original poster wants to handle nested
lists.  I'm almost certain, though, that it's hard to teach Tcl
Python syntax (and vice-versa) for general cases.  On the other
hand, as you write in a paragraph I elided, the original
questioner might be indifferent to all the esoterica we're 
imagining.

Elsewhere in this thread, I posted what I claim is a complete 
solution (for *some* problem--again, I remain unsure exactly 
what the target is).  I trust your judgment on its readability
compared to your pyparsing-based example.

Keep posting those examples!  I think pyparsing deserves plenty
more marketing of exactly this type.  

I don't have an installation of pyparsing handy.  If this topic
interests folks, I should have another machine or two repaired
early this week, and I can more carefully trace through the 
pathologies to which pyparsing of Tcl might be subject.