converting string to tuple in python

Question

I have a string returnd from a software like \"(\'mono\')\" from that I needed to convert string to tuple .

that I was thinking using ast.literal_eval

Answer 1

How about using regular expressions ?

In [1686]: x
Out[1686]: '(mono)'

In [1687]: tuple(re.findall(r'[\w]+', x))
Out[1687]: ('mono',)

In [1688]: x = '(mono), (tono), (us)'

In [1689]: tuple(re.findall(r'[\w]+', x))
Out[1689]: ('mono', 'tono', 'us')

In [1690]: x = '(mono, tonous)'

In [1691]: tuple(re.findall(r'[\w]+', x))
Out[1691]: ('mono', 'tonous')