Rune Strand wrote: > But iif it are many lists in the file and they're organised like this: > > ['a','b','c','d','e'] > ['a','b','c','d','e'] > ['A','B','C','D','E'] ['X','F','R','E','Q'] > > I think this'll do it > > data = open('the_file', 'r').read().split(']') > > lists = [] > for el in data: > el = el.replace('[', '').strip() > el = el.replace("'", "") > lists.append(el.split(',')) > > # further processing of lists > > but the type problem is still to be resolved ;-) >
Try this: ["O'Reilly, Fawlty, and Manuel", '""', ',', '"Hello", said O\'Reilly'] :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list