String To List

[Paul Rubin]

Girish <girish.cfc at gmail.com> writes:
> I have a string a = "['xyz', 'abc']".. I would like to convert it to a
> list with elements 'xyz' and 'abc'. Is there any simple solution for
> this??
> Thanks for the help...

Be careful about using eval, if the string came from a potentially
hostile source.  Maybe what you really want is JSON, which has
python-like syntax but a bunch of safe parsers.