[Tutor] unstring

[Marc Tompkins]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Jim Mooney <cybervigilante at gmail.com>wrote:

> Is there a way to unstring something? That is str(object) will give me
> a string, but what if I want the original object back, for some
> purpose, without a lot of foofaraw?
>

Unless you're storing them in a dictionary and the string is the key -
no... unless the original object is simpler than a string - an int, for
example.

I believe there's a general law of physics and/or informatics at work
here...
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