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| From | Ravi Sahni <ganeshsahni07@gmail.com> |
| Date | 2013-10-06 22:20 +0530 |
| Subject | Re: how to read list from file |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.788.1381078230.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Harvey Greenberg <hjgreenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, October 5, 2013 7:24:39 PM UTC-6, Tim Chase wrote:
>> Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan 2 2013, 13:56:14)
>> [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more
>> information.
>> >>> s = "[{'a':1, 'b':2}, [1,2,3], 10]"
>> >>> import ast
>> >>> print repr(ast.literal_eval(s))
>> [{'a': 1, 'b': 2}, [1, 2, 3], 10]
>>
>>
>>
>> -tkc
>
> that didn't work. printing it looks like the list because it's the input, but try printing len(repr(ast.literal_eval(s))). It should give 3, but it gives 72 (number of chars).
Please to remove the repr and try again?
Thank you!
--
Ravi
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how to read list from file Harvey Greenberg <hjgreenberg@gmail.com> - 2013-10-05 18:08 -0700
Re: how to read list from file Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-10-05 20:24 -0500
Re: how to read list from file Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-05 21:35 -0400
Re: how to read list from file Harvey Greenberg <hjgreenberg@gmail.com> - 2013-10-06 09:41 -0700
Re: how to read list from file Harvey Greenberg <hjgreenberg@gmail.com> - 2013-10-06 09:46 -0700
Re: how to read list from file Ravi Sahni <ganeshsahni07@gmail.com> - 2013-10-06 22:20 +0530
Re: how to read list from file Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-10-07 09:04 +0300
Re: how to read list from file Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-05 21:34 -0400
Re: how to read list from file Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-06 02:24 -0400
Re: how to read list from file Harvey Greenberg <hjgreenberg@gmail.com> - 2013-10-06 09:57 -0700
Re: how to read list from file Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-06 18:24 +0100
Re: how to read list from file Ravi Sahni <ganeshsahni07@gmail.com> - 2013-10-06 23:08 +0530
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