> hint 1: hint 1b:
>>> eval("[('recId', 3), ('parse', {'pos': u'np', 'gen': u'm'})]") [('recId', 3), ('parse', {'pos': u'np', 'gen': u'm'})] >>> eval("[('recId', 3), ('parse', {'pos': u'np', 'gen': u'm'})]\n") [('recId', 3), ('parse', {'pos': u'np', 'gen': u'm'})] >>> eval("[('recId', 3), ('parse', {'pos': u'np', 'gen': u'm'})]\r\n") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "<string>", line 1 [('recId', 3), ('parse', {'pos': u'np', 'gen': u'm'})] ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list