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On 24.03.2016 14:22, Matt Wheeler wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:10 Sven R. Kunze, <srkunze@mail.de> wrote:
>
>> On 24.03.2016 11:57, Matt Wheeler wrote:
>>>>>> import ast
>>>>>> s = "(1, 2, 3, 4)"
>>>>>> t = ast.literal_eval(s)
>>>>>> t
>>> (1, 2, 3, 4)
>> I suppose that's the better solution in terms of safety.
>>
> It has the added advantage that the enquirer gets to import a module that
> shares their name ;)

One shouldn't underestimate this. ;-)