How to get back a list object from its string representation?

[Harish Vishwanath]

Hello,
Consider :

>>> li = [1,2,3]
>>> repr(li)
'[1, 2, 3]'

Is there a standard way to get back li, from repr(li) ?

Regards,
Harish

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