Girish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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...
Be careful about using eval, if the string came from a potentially hostile source. Maybe what you really want is JSON, which has python-like syntax but a bunch of safe parsers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list