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

If you are always working with a list, then the following kind of thing should work just fine. Beware, it will not cast ints to ints and such; they will always be string items in the list.

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

l2 = s[1:-1].split(',')

print l2
['aa', 'bb', 'cc']

You probably want to check the boundaries of the string and such to check that it's long enough for that array stuff too...