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On 2016-03-24 11:49, David Palao wrote:
>> s = "(1, 2, 3, 4)"
>>
>> and I want to recover the tuple in a variable t
>>
>> t = (1, 2, 3, 4)
>>
>> how would you do ?
>
> Use "eval":
> s = "(1, 2, 3, 4)"
> t = eval(s)

Using eval() has security implications. Use ast.literal_eval for
safety instead:

  import ast
  s = "(1, 2, 3, 4)"
  t = ast.literal_eval(s)

-tkc