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Re: How to do a Lispy-esque read?

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Date 2013-04-08 01:32 -0700
Subject Re: How to do a Lispy-esque read?
From Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.272.1365410360.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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There is no "read in a stream until it's a valid literal" function as
far as I know, but ast.literal_eval will turn your string into an
object.

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:45 AM,  <zeta.convex@gmail.com> wrote:
> Suppose I want to read an object from some stream. How do I do it?
>
> For example, if the input stream contained the text:
> [1, # python should ignore this comment
> 2]
>
> and I do a "read" on it, I should obtain the result
> [1, 2]
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How to do a Lispy-esque read? zeta.convex@gmail.com - 2013-04-08 00:45 -0700
  Re: How to do a Lispy-esque read? Barrett Lewis <musikal.fusion@gmail.com> - 2013-04-08 01:17 -0700
  Re: How to do a Lispy-esque read? Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2013-04-08 01:32 -0700
  Re: How to do a Lispy-esque read? Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com> - 2013-04-08 18:46 +0100

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