I was wondering how I could change a list written as a string, such as ‘[1,[2,[]],[3,[]]]’ into an actual python list like [1,[2,[]],[3,[]]]. Is there any algorithm for this?
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What about `json.loads` ? – Dec 04 '17 at 19:29
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6Possible duplicate of [Convert string representation of list to list in Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1894269/convert-string-representation-of-list-to-list-in-python) – B. M. Dec 04 '17 at 19:29
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3`eval("[1,[2,[]],[3,[]]]")` – Woody Pride Dec 04 '17 at 19:35
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@WoodyPride `eval` is dangerous because it will execute code in the input. – Skippy le Grand Gourou Jun 19 '19 at 09:27
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This topic have a lot of examples of solutions for your problem :)
Python - convert string to list
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Ricardo Costardi
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Assign your value to a variable then call the variable.split() it defaults to comma delimited which in your instance would result in list['[1,[2,[]],[3,[]]]']
another example of this could be this:
a = "test, 1, testing2, alpha, beta, Zulu, 23"
a.split()
Result: ['test,', '1,', 'testing2,', 'alpha,', 'beta,', 'Zulu,', '23']
Mike Pineau
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sorry I forgot that split is default space delimited if you do a.split(",") you end up with a comma delimited python list – Mike Pineau Dec 04 '17 at 19:34