On Mar 17, 1:15 am, Girish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a string a = "['xyz', 'abc']".. I would like to convert it to a > list with elements 'xyz' and 'abc'. Is there any simple solution for > this?? > Thanks for the help...
eval(a) will do the job, but you have to be very careful about using
that function. An alternative is
[s.strip('\'"') for s in a.strip('[]').split(', ')]
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