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On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:10 Sven R. Kunze, <srkunze@mail.de> wrote:

> On 24.03.2016 11:57, Matt Wheeler wrote:
> >>>> import ast
> >>>> s = "(1, 2, 3, 4)"
> >>>> t = ast.literal_eval(s)
> >>>> t
> > (1, 2, 3, 4)
>
> I suppose that's the better solution in terms of safety.
>

It has the added advantage that the enquirer gets to import a module that
shares their name ;)

>