How to parse string to list in Python ?
myStringValue = "[['5', 1], ['1', 5], ['3', 3], ['3', 6], ['4', 5], ['4', 3], ['4', 5], ['6', 6], ['4', 1], ['3', 4]]"
How to convert myStringValue to list ?
1 Answer
Be careful when using it as it's open to exploitation, but eval() is one way forward:
>>> myStringValue = "[['5', 1], ['1', 5], ['3', 3], ['3', 6], ['4', 5], ['4', 3], ['4', 5], ['6', 6], ['4', 1], ['3', 4]]"
>>> eval(myStringValue)
[['5', 1], ['1', 5], ['3', 3], ['3', 6], ['4', 5], ['4', 3], ['4', 5], ['6', 6], ['4', 1], ['3', 4]]
>>> type(eval(myStringValue))
<type 'list'>
1 Comment
OneCricketeer
json or ast modules would be better here
ast.literal_eval(..)