Stef, You can quickly get a tuple via:
t = eval('(0, 0, 0, 255), (192, 192, 192, 255), True, 8') Joseph Armbruster On Dec 19, 4:17 pm, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > I need to translate the following string > a = '(0, 0, 0, 255), (192, 192, 192, 255), True, 8' > > into the following list or tuple > b = [(0, 0, 0, 255), (192, 192, 192, 255), True, 8 ] > > Is there a simple way to to this. > (Not needed now, but might need it in the future: even deeper nested > lists, represented by a string.) > > thanks, > Stef Mientki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list