"William Park" <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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> Oliver Kurz <olku at web.de> wrote:> > Hello,> >> > could someone give me a solution how to convert a string to a list
without using eval or exec?
> >> > The string looks like:> >> >
'[["abc","abc",["abc","abc"],"abc"],["abc","abc",["abc","abc"],["abc",["abc"
,"abc"]],"abc"],"abc"]'
> >> > and should be converted to a list:> >> > [['abc', 'abc', ['abc', 'abc'], 'abc'], ['abc', 'abc', ['abc', 'abc'],
['abc', ['abc', 'abc']], 'abc'], 'abc']
> >> > I'm not allowed to use eval or exec.>> - write to a file> - load the file as module :-)
This made me laugh out loud after reading all the heavy duty parsing
options, is that bad?
Dom
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