SoxFan44 wrote: > I was wondering if there was a way to create a list (which in this > case would contain several dicts) based on a string passed in by the > user. Security is not an issue. Basically I want to be able to have > the user pass in using optparse: > --actions=[{"action_name": "action_1", "val": "asdf", "val2": > "asdf"}, > {"action_name": "action_2", "val": "asdf", "val2": > "asdf"}, > {"action_name": "action_1", "val": "asdf", "val2": > "asdf"}] > > And have this create a list/dict. I'm aware of pickle, but it won't > work as far as I can tell.
Both eval() and json.loads() will do. eval() is dangerous as it allows the user to run arbitrary python code. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list