An alternative is reading the list into a string and using my 'listquote' module. It will tun strings into lists (and vice versa) - including nested lists (lists of lists) and properly handling quoted elements.
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html It won't do integer conversions though - only strings. Regards, Fuzzy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
