On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:38:56 -0500, Calvin Spealman wrote: > I still hold my vote that if you need to reverse the "stringification" > of a list, you shouldn't have stringified the list and lost hold of the > original list in the first place. That is the solution above all others.
Naturally, but it isn't always an option. Perhaps the list was read from a human-writable config file or something. It's a non-starter to expect people to write a list of ints in Python's native binary format -- and you still have the problem of how do you get those bytes from the file into Python's virtual machine and correctly bound to a name. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
