[Tutor] Turning a string into a tuple?

[Danny Yoo]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, David L. Lerner wrote:

> The eval() statement!!!
> 
>  eval ("['Alda', 11, 9, 6, 'Trey', 10, 12]")
> 
> gives me:
> 
> ['Alda', 11, 9, 6, 'Trey', 10, 12]
> 
> I found this five minutes after asking.  Thank you for your time.
> 
> Is there a searchable index to the python tutor list?
> 
> 
> >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
> dell2100@prodigy.net
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