[Tutor] Turning a string into a tuple?

[David L. Lerner]

I need to turn a string:

"['Alda', 11, 9, 6, 'Trey', 10, 12]"

into a tuple:

['Alda', 11, 9, 6, 'Trey', 10, 12]

This seems like it should be simple, sort of  the reverse of  string (), but
I can't find how to do it.  I tried:

>>> tuple ("['Alda', 11, 9, 6, 'Trey', 10, 12]")

and I got:

('[', "'", 'A', 'l', 'd', 'a', "'", ',', ' ', '1', '1', ',', ' ', '9', ',',
' ', '6', ',', ' ', "'", 'T', 'r', 'e', 'y', "'", ',', ' ', '1', '0', ',', '
', '1', '2', ']')


Thank you
David L. Lerner
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