On Mar 17, 3:22 am, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Or take a look at a restricted safe eval variant (e.g. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/262d479569b1712e) George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
