On Mar 17, 10:26 am, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Girish wrote: > > I have a string a = "['xyz', 'abc']".. I would like to convert it to a > > list with elements 'xyz' and 'abc'. Is there any simple solution for > > this?? > > Do you want: > > (1) Specifically to vivify lists formatted as in your example? If so, why? > > (2) To save and restore arbitrary python objects? > > (3) To define some kind of configuration file format that you can read > from Python?
Bar says: Announce your intentions, then contents. (Form, then contents.) == List of two strings. How does that go into code? >>> list([str,str]) [<type 'str'>, <type 'str'>] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
