Terry Reedy wrote: > On 11/30/2011 1:20 AM, 郭军权 wrote: >> Good after >> I have a string liststr = '["aaaa","bbbb","ccc"]' ,and I need convert it >> to a list like list = ["aaaa","bbbb","ccc"],what can id do? > > The easiest -- and most dangerous -- way is > >>> eval('["aaaa","bbbb","ccc"]') > ['aaaa', 'bbbb', 'ccc'] > > But DO NOT eval unexamined strings from untrusted sources. The reason is > that it is much the same as letting an untrusted person sit unsupervised > as the keyboard of your computer with a command window open. You would > not want to eval > "from os import system; system('<command to delete files>')" > where '<command...>' is replaced by something obnoxious for your > operating system.
You can avoid these problems with ast.literal_eval(): literal_eval(node_or_string) Safely evaluate an expression node or a string containing a Python expression. The string or node provided may only consist of the following Python literal structures: strings, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, booleans, and None. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list