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Re: How convert a list string to a real list

Date 2011-11-30 18:12 -0500
From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: How convert a list string to a real list
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On 11/30/2011 5:48 PM, Hidura wrote:
> Why you don't make this "['1','2','3']".strip("[]").split(',') work for me

Look more carefully. This is not the same as ast.literal_eval().

 >>> "['1','2','3']".strip("[]").split(',')
["'1'", "'2'", "'3'"]  # list of 3-char strings
 >>> ast.literal_eval("['1','2','3']")
['1', '2', '3']  # list of 1-char strings

Even if it were the same, it would be specific to lists of strings and 
would not work for anything else.

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