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From: Ravi Sahni <ganeshsahni07@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 23:08:43 +0530
Subject: Re: how to read list from file
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On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Harvey Greenberg <hjgreenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, October 5, 2013 7:08:08 PM UTC-6, Harvey Greenberg wrote:
>> I am looping as for L in file.readlines(), where file is csv.
>>
>>
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>> L is a list of 3 items, eg, [{'a':1, 'b':2}, [1,2,3], 10] Note that the first item is a dir and 2nd is a list, so parsing with split doesn't work.  Is there a way to convert L, which is a string, to the list of 3 items I want?
>
> Yay!!!! It worked.  Thanks!

Which method working?
Literal_eval method? JSON method? Some third method?

[I am newbie so interested. Please to excuse!!]
-- 
Ravi