On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Harvey Greenberg <hjgreenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday, October 5, 2013 7:24:39 PM UTC-6, Tim Chase wrote: >> Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan 2 2013, 13:56:14) >> [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more >> information. >> >>> s = "[{'a':1, 'b':2}, [1,2,3], 10]" >> >>> import ast >> >>> print repr(ast.literal_eval(s)) >> [{'a': 1, 'b': 2}, [1, 2, 3], 10] >> >> >> >> -tkc > > that didn't work. printing it looks like the list because it's the input, > but try printing len(repr(ast.literal_eval(s))). It should give 3, but it > gives 72 (number of chars).
Please to remove the repr and try again? Thank you! -- Ravi -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list