Python - String to list

Question

I need cast a list to a string and get back the string to a list. There\'s a python way to make this behavior?

l1 = [\'aa\',\'bb\',\'cc\']
s = str(l1)
l2 = c         


        

Answer 1

Use a serialization library like json:

import json

l1 = ['aa','bb','cc']
s = json.dumps(l1)
l2 = json.loads(s)

print s
print l1 == l2